1890 Atlas and Plat Book of Dane County, Wisconsin

Plat Book of Dane County, Wisconsin, drawn from actual surveys and the county records by C. M. Foote and J. W. Henion and published by C. M. Foote & Co. of Minneapolis in 1890 — reproduced here as a complete color facsimile, with every township plate, every village and city plat, both halves of Madison, and the full patrons' directory.

The thirty-five township plates are the heart of the book. Each is drawn section by section with the name of every landowner lettered across their acreage, together with the roads, school houses, churches, cemeteries, mills, railroads, lakes and marshes as they stood in 1890. For anyone tracing a Dane County family, this is the record that puts an ancestor on a specific piece of ground: 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, Pleasant Springs, Primrose, Roxbury, Rutland, Spring Dale, Springfield, Sun Prairie, Vermont, Verona, Vienna, Westport, Windsor, and York.

The village and city plats add lot-by-lot detail: Madison in two large plates for the east and west parts of the city, plus Stoughton, Sun Prairie, Oregon, Belleville, Cambridge, Mount Horeb, Mazomanie, Middleton, Waunakee, McFarland, Marshall, De Forest, Deerfield, Cross Plains, Black Earth, Verona, Brooklyn, Mount Vernon, Rockdale, Paoli and Paoli Station, Pine Bluff, Pheasant Branch, Monona, Morrison, Deansville, Vilas, Riley, Foxville, London, Quarry Town, Merrill Park, Prospect Hill, Cottage Park, and the Oak Lawn and Pleasant View additions to South Madison.

Also reproduced in full: the Dane County outline map, the state map of Wisconsin, the government survey diagrams and explanations, and the eleven-page patrons' directory listing the county residents who subscribed to the atlas — often the quickest route from a surname to a section number.

Because a plat book records who owned what, rather than who lived where, it answers a question no census or city directory can: it is an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Wisconsin history.

76 pages. 8.5" x 11.25". Full color. Hardcover.

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