1873 Atlas of Dane County, Wisconsin

Atlas of Dane County, Wisconsin, drawn from actual surveys and the county records and published by Harrison & Warner of Madison in 1873 — reproduced here in full color from the Wisconsin Historical Society copy, with every township plate, every village plat, the large three-page map of the city of Madison, the historical sketch of the county, the table of populations, and the Madison directory. The four-page railroad and sectional map of the state of Wisconsin, bound at the end of the original, is not included.

This is the earlier of Dane County's two nineteenth-century atlases, made seventeen years before the 1890 plat book and showing a county still filling in. The thirty-five township plates carry the name of every landowner lettered across their acreage, with the roads, school houses, churches, cemeteries, mills and railroads of 1873: Albion, Berry, Black Earth, Blooming Grove, Blue Mounds, Bristol, Burke, Christiana, Cottage Grove, Cross Plains, Dane, Deerfield, Dunkirk, Dunn, Fitchburg, Madison, Mazomanie, Medina, Middleton, Montrose, Oregon, Perry, Primrose, Pleasant Springs, Roxbury, Rutland, Springdale, Springfield, Sun Prairie, Verona, Vermont, Vienna, Westport, Windsor, and York.

The village plats show lot-by-lot detail for Stoughton, Cambridge, Belleville, Mazomanie, Black Earth, Cross Plains, Middleton, Waunakee, De Forest, Windsor, Marshall, Deansville, Sun Prairie, McFarland, Paoli, Oregon, Mount Vernon, Morrison, Albion, Clinton, Clifton, Christina, Dane, Foxville, Pheasant Branch, and Dane Station — many of them places that never grew, and some that no longer exist.

Madison itself gets three joined pages at large scale, drawn while the university farm, the fair ground and Camp Randall still stood at the edge of town: every block and lot from Lake Mendota to Lake Wingra, with the State Capitol at the centre and owners' names written across the outlying farms.

The volume closes with the historical sketch of Dane County — the Black Hawk War, the first settlers at the Blue Mounds, the founding of Madison and the townships one by one — followed by the population tables and a directory of Madison residents and businesses.

For anyone tracing a Dane County family, a farm, or a vanished village, this is where the paper trail becomes a picture — an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Wisconsin history.

58 pages. 8.5" x 11". Full color. Paperback.

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