1890 Plat Book and Atlas of Columbia County, Wisconsin

Plat Book of Columbia 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 in full color complete: every township plate, every village and city plat, the outline map of the county, the state map of Wisconsin, the government survey diagrams, and the full patrons' directory.

All twenty-one townships are here, each drawn section by section with the name of every landowner lettered across their acreage, together with the roads, school houses, churches, cemeteries, mills and railroads of 1890: Arlington, Caledonia, Columbus, Courtland, Dekorra, Fort Winnebago, Fountain Prairie, Hampden, Leeds, Lewiston, Lodi, Lowville, Marcellon, Newport, Otsego, Pacific, Randolph, Scott, Springvale, West Point and Wyocena.

The city and village plats show lots and owners in Portage, the county seat at the old Fox-Wisconsin portage, and in Columbus, Kilbourn City, Lodi, Pardeeville, Cambria, Fall River, Rio, Randolph, Doylestown, Wyocena, Otsego, Arlington, Dekorra and Okee. Kilbourn City is the plat most people will not expect: the town renamed itself Wisconsin Dells in 1931, and this is the street grid before the tourists came.

The volume closes with the patrons' directory, naming the county residents who paid to have their farms recorded — a subscriber list that doubles as a census of who was on the land in 1890, and often the fastest 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. For anyone tracing a Columbia County family, this is an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Wisconsin history.

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

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