BlockNeosho Village
The complete chapter on this town from The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880. 257 words, covering 1 settlement. 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
1 settlementWhat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neosho | 10 | 4 | 2 | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is named in the chapter.
The chapter
257 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880. 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.
Neosho Village
The village of Neosho is situated on portions of Sections 29 and 30, of Rubicon Township, and is a quiet, healthy, and thriving every-day village, with a population ranging somewhere in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty. It has a goodly number of humming mills, busy shops, business-like stores, and comfortable homes, to say nothing of honest men and fair women, in whose features are blended the rosy tints of health and beauty.
The first settler whose ax broke the stillness of the forest was Daniel E. Cotton. Accompanied by an old gentleman by the name of Rathburn, Mr. Cotton "pitched his tent" there in the month of February, 1845. Soon after his arrival, he commenced the erection of a saw-mill on the Rubicon River, which t o years later he sold to Mr. L. S. Van Orden. In the following spring, Mr. Dennison Baker, one of the most substantial citizens of the town, located here; and the second year of the settlement, others arrived in considerable number, and the country began rapidly to develop into fine farms under the hardy strokes and energy of the new settlers.
Sylvester Taylor, the first Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, was from this village. Mr. T. afterward moved to Watertown, in this State, and engaged in newspaper work, after which he went to Oregon, where he died.
The first store here was conducted by L. S. Van Orden. He was one of the most noble and charitable men who lived in the county, and died April 30, 1858.
Provenance
Text from The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880, 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.