Yankeetown, Wisconsin
Yankeetown, Wisconsin | |
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Unincorporated community | |
Yankeetown Yankeetown | |
Coordinates: 43°22′48″N 90°47′52″W / 43.38000°N 90.79778°WCoordinates: 43°22′48″N 90°47′52″W / 43.38000°N 90.79778°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Wisconsin |
County | Crawford |
Town | Clayton |
Elevation | 778 ft (237 m) |
Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
• Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
Area code(s) | 608 |
GNIS feature ID | 2760638[1] |
Yankeetown is an unincorporated community in the town of Clayton, Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States, approximately two miles southwest of Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin on Wisconsin Highway 131.[1]
History
The cemetery there (still extant) was established around 1861; it is the oldest in the town of Clayton. In 1870 there was a schoolhouse there, which was used for services by a newly organized congregation of the Disciples of Christ.[2]
William Henry Evans, a farmer, lawyer, and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, lived in Yankeetown.[3]
The Yankeetown post office ceased to be listed in the Wisconsin Blue Book as of the 1883 edition.
Notes
- 1 2 "Yankeetown, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
- ↑ History of Crawford and Richland Counties, Wisconsin. Together with sketches of their towns and villages, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens Springfield, Illinois, 1884; p. 579
- ↑ Turner, A. J., ed. The legislative manual of the state of Wisconsin: comprising the constitutions of the United States and of the state of Wisconsin, Jefferson's manual, forms and laws for the regulation of business; also, lists and tables for reference, etc. Thirteenth Annual Edition. Madison: Atwood and Culver, Printers and Stereotypers, 1874; p. 457
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