BlockIxonia Town
The complete chapter on this town from The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879. 206 words, covering 3 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
3 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this town: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ixonia | 17 | 11 | 2 | - |
| Lake Lac La Belle | 18 | - | 5 | - |
| Pipersville | 20 | 2 | 1 | - |
Settlements in this township
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 2 of the 3 are named in the chapter; the other was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
206 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Ixonia Town
Pipersville and Ixonia Center are the two points of interest in this town. Jans H. Stren now seventy-seven years of age, claims to have been the first settler in that part of the Roc River A'^alley. Ixonia Center may be said to have been first located on the river, one mile ea: of its present site. At one time, there were two hotels, a steam saw-mill and a store (by Samui Piper) on the old site ; but when the railroad was built, in 1856, Ixonia Center took flight, i it were, and settled down in Sections 21 and 22, to become a station on the La Crosse Divisio of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. The Postmasters at the Center have been Samui Piper, H. E. Iluniplirey and James McCall. There are now two stores, one saloon, one blac smith and turning shop, two shoemaker shops, one church, one cheese-factory, a public schoo and one elevator. The population is estimated at one hundred. "Old Man "McCall wt mong the first settlers, but that jolly old individual, Jans Strem, who remembers so vividly the reat amount of fun he had '" niit de var," insists that "I vas de fir^tee man; you can see lino hair."
Provenance
Text from The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.