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Beginning in 1844, nearly 700 settlers were brought into this area by the British Temperance & Emigration Society, organized the previous year in Liverpool, England. By 1850 Dover boasted a hotel, post office, cooper, blacksmith, shoemaker, wagon shop and stores. When the railroad chose Mazomanie for a depot site and made no stop in Dover, Doverites moved their houses into Mazomanie and Dover faded away to become a ghost town. A local boy who made good was John Appleby, inventor of the knotter on the grain binder. The idea came to Appleby as he watched the monotonously regular movement of his mother's hands in knitting. In 1867 he successfully demonstrated his revolutionary "contraption" in a wheat field east of the cemetery.
Details
| HM Number | HM43L |
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| Series | This marker is part of the Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society series |
| Tags | |
| Marker Number | 7 |
| Year Placed | 1953 |
| Placed By | Wisconsin State Historical Society |
| Marker Condition |   8 out of 10 (1 reports) |
| Date Added | Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014 at 5:04am PDT -07:00 |
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| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 16T E 269231 N 4782757 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 43.16236667, -89.83863333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 43° 9.742', W 89° 50.318' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 43° 9' 44.52" N, 89° 50' 19.08" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 608 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 8986-11088 US-14, Mazomanie WI 53560, US |
| Alternative Maps | Google Maps, MapQuest, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSR Maps, OpenCycleMap, MyTopo Maps, OpenStreetMap |
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I Saw The Marker
Good condition and very readable
Represents part of my family history in the area in 1850s
Oct 14, 2015 at 12:23pm PDT by brwhitsell
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