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By Dr. Isaac HOWETownship No. 5 north, range 9 east of the 4th principal meridian, is situated in the center of the southern tier of townships in the county of Dane. The surface is undulating, and was, in the state of nature, covered with burr and white oak openings, with ...
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF OREGON and THE VILLAGE OF OREGON From the 1880 History of Dane County, Western Historical Company, Chicago, pages 858-863.From the first Tuesday in April, 1846, to the first Tuesday in April, 1847, the territory now constituting the town of Oregon was under the government of ...
This is the Hitching Park as it was in 1906 when the hitching park was established and the posts in front of the stores removed. ...
The OAHS has an extensive collection of cemetery records for area cemeteries. The valuable card file exists because of the tireless work of Joan Gefke and Joan Wethal who researched and compiled the records over many years. We would like to acknowledge the kind donation of these records to the ...
C.H. Cronk’s built the Opera House as a roller skating rink. It was the center of social activities for many years in the early 1900’s ...
In 1906 a petition was received by the Village Board requesting the village be bonded for $8,000 to provide an electric power plant. It took ten years for the Oregon Electric Company to become a reality. ...
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In 1925, the fire department put their first motor driven fire equipment into use. The cost was $3,000 ...
In the early 1920’s, a large interdenominational, evangelistic complex, known as the Hallelujah Camp Grounds, was built on the corner of Janesville St. and South Perry Parkway (See Google Map).Hundreds of people attended the religious gathering run by former Congregational minister, Rev. Jack Linn and his wife Sophie Nelson Linn ...
Excerpted from A Walk Back in History: Did you Know? by Florice Paulson* Post ScriptFlorice Paulson's book says the railroad was involved in the naming of Oregon, but subsequent research has shown that not to be true.Once the railroad was established here in 1865, that reinforced the name of Oregon ...
