In Memory of the First Settlers of Hartford

In Memory of the First

Settlers of Hartford

Jeremy Adams • Matthew Allyn • Francis Andrews • William Andrews • John Arnold • Andrew Bacon • John Barnard • Thomas Barnes • Robert Bartlett • John Baysey • Thomas Beale • Nathaniel ...

First Swedish Settlers in Wisconsin

Carl Friman (1781-1862) emigrated from Sweden with five sons in 1838 and purchased 80 acres near Genoa City. The Friman family members were recognized as the first Swedes to settle permanently in Wisconsin. Returning to his homeland, Friman corresponded regularly ...

First Settler

"Green Meadows," to the west, was the home of Adam Miller (1703-1783), one of the first Europeans to settle in the valley. The property remained in the Miller (originally Mueller) family from the 1740s through 1936.

Marker is on Stuart Avenue ...

The First Settler

The first actual settler in Lake City was Jacob Boody who came in the Fall of 1853. His brother and Abner Dwelle came the next year. Samuel Doughty built the first substantial home and blacksmith shop in 1855. That same ...

House of First Settler

Springdale, home of Colonel John Hite, son of Joist Hite, leader of the first settlers in this section, was built in 1753. Just to the South are ruins of Hite’s Fort, built about 1734.

Marker is at the intersection of Valley ...

Viroqua's First Settler

In 1846, Moses Decker came to the Wisconsin Territory seeking land. He purchased 160 acres and built a log cabin at, what is now, 207 North Main Street. In 1850, he plotted the village which became Viroqua and built a ...

First Settler

"Green Meadows," to the west, was the home of Adam Miller (1703-1783), one of the first Europeans to settle in the valley. The property remained in the Miller (originally Mueller) family from the 1740s through 1936.

Marker is on Stuart Avenue ...

First Settlers of Newark

This tablet is placed

upon this church

the oldest of all our

local institutions,

in memory of

the first settlers

who founded

“Ye town upon ye Pesayak”

1666

Erected by the Newark

members of the New Jersey

Society of Colonial

Dames of America • 1902

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street ...

First Settlers

Walter Kelly settled here about 1773 but was killed by Indians. William Morris came here in 1774 and made first permanent settlement in this valley. He built a fort, had a "boat yard," and started a church and school.

Marker is ...