Yankeetown, Wisconsin Explained

Official Name:Yankeetown, Wisconsin
Pushpin Map:Wisconsin#USA
Pushpin Label:Yankeetown
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Crawford
Subdivision Type3:Town
Subdivision Name3:Clayton
Timezone:Central (CST)
Utc Offset:-6
Timezone Dst:CDT
Utc Offset Dst:-5
Elevation Ft:778
Coordinates:43.38°N -90.7978°W
Area Code:608
Blank Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:2760638

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.

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.[1]

William Henry Evans, a farmer, lawyer, and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, lived in Yankeetown.[2]

The Yankeetown post office ceased to be listed in the Wisconsin Blue Book as of the 1883 edition.

Notes and References

  1. http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wch/id/17432 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
  2. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1874 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