Wisconsin Genealogy Trails' Dodge County

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Greetings Dodge County, Wisconsin website dedicated to bring "Free info - not Links" to researchers. Have "Dodge County" ties and connections, contact me. I want to hear your stories and the history of your ancestors from this beautiful County. We need contributions of your history and stories. Don't forget the Native American History which is so important to Wisconsin. Everything is helpful - Obituaries, Biographies, Photos and County History, to name a few. Data will be posted as fast as we can find, type and/or receive it. View what we have, BOOKMARK us and check back often. If you wish to submit data of any type to this site, it will be graciously accepted and added to this site. Remember: Submitted data will always be YOURS. CONTROL of any submitted data is yours. At any time you can choose to remove it or keep it online - from any site - wherever on the web. Asked about joining the "Friends of Free Genealogy" your Temporary Host, Sara Hemp *Note: Unless otherwise stated, ALL DATA and INFO are donoted, transcribed and submitted by Sara Hemp and the "Friends of Free Genealogy"

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TOWNSHIPS

Ashippun

Burnett

Beaver Dam

Calamus

Chester

Clyman

Elba

Emmet

Fox Lake

Herman

Hubbard

Hustiford

Lebanon

Leroy

Lomira

Lowell

Oak Grove

Portland

Rubicon

Shields

Theresa

Trenton

Westford

Williamstown

Cities

Beaver Dam

Clyman

Fox Lake

Hustiford

Lomira

Lowell

Theresa

Its county seat is Juneau.
More than 10,000 years ago, small bands of people entered Dodge County on the edge of the receding glacier. Numerous sites within the county show evidence of the early inhabitants including stone tools, campsites and settlements, burial and effigy mounds, garden plots and paintings and carvings on rock outcrops and stones.
Dodge County was created in 1836 and named in honor of Henry Dodge, then territorial governor of Wisconsin. The Town of Victory was chosen as the County Seat. The Town of Victory was later renamed City of Juneau after Paul Juneau, the son of Solomon Juneau, founder of Milwaukee.
In 1845 iron ore was discovered in Mayville and an iron ore works operated here for several decades until competition from mines in the Lake Superior region closed them. Sawmills and gristmills were widely distributed over Dodge County in the 1870's. In 1875, John Jossie, came from Switzerland, developed the variety of cheese known as brick, and later opened the first brick cheese factory in the United States in Watertown, operating until 1943.

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