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This little settlement became a stopping place on the Kenosha Division of the N. W. R. R. some seventeen years ago, when the road first went through.

The first settler of the township was Hiram (?) Wattles, who settled here in 1835, on Section 31, where he laid out a town, calling it Scipio, but it never was occupied.

The first religious exercises were held by the Baptists, among whom may be mentioned Elder Picket. In 1847, however, a M. E. class was organized, and maintained until 1870, when the present church edifice was erected. Its membership is about 50 and an average attendance at Sunday-school of 46 ; Superintendent, C. Douglass.

History of Winnebago County-1877

 

 

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