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The community was named for Adam Byrd, who built the first sawmill in the township. The post office was originally established as Bird's Creek in March 1890 and was changed to Byrd's Creek two months later. [2]
The 1909 plat map showed some details of the buildings at Bethel Academy, and noted a blacksmith shop a mile to the east. New schools had appeared where modern 80 meets N and where modern T meets EE. [12] The 1920 plat map showed more of the same pattern: lots of 80 and 40-acre farms, more roads, and smaller lots around Bethel.
Financed by Congressional action in 1832 and constructed between 1835 and 1837, [5] the first military road in Wisconsin Territory connected three forts. [6] From Fort Howard near Green Bay, the road extended south along the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago and then headed southwest toward Fort Winnebago (near present-day Portage along the Wisconsin River).
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Soldiers Grove is a village situated along the Kickapoo River in Crawford County, Wisconsin, in the United States.The population was 552 at the 2020 census.The town is notable for having relocated its central business district due to flooding on the nearby Kickapoo River during the 1970s, and has become a case study in best practices for managed retreat.
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In 1833, the Potawatomi surrendered the land west of the river by signing the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, which (after being ratified in 1835) required them to leave Wisconsin by 1838. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The land was organized as part of the Town of Milwaukee in 1835, and much of the land was bought by land speculators , who cleared the old-growth ...
Price County was created on March 3, 1879, when Wisconsin Governor William E. Smith signed legislation creating the county. The county was later organized in 1882. [3] William T. Price (1824–1886), for whom Price County was named, [4] was President of the Wisconsin Senate and an early logger in Price County; he later was elected to the U.S ...