Village of Cooksville / Village of Waucoma

Village of Cooksville / Village of Waucoma (HMF0P)

Location: Evansville, WI 53536 Rock County
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Country: United States of America
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N 42° 50.103', W 89° 14.177'

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Village of Cooksville
Cooksville consists of two villages: Cooksville platted in 1842 and Waucoma platted in 1846. John and Daniel Cook settled here in 1840, establishing Cooksville on the Badfish Creek, where a sawmill was soon constructed. Dr. John Porter of Massachusetts laid out Waucoma east of Cooksville. The two villages were settled by people from New England, New York, the British Isles, and, later, Norway. But the village, known as Cooksville because of the post office's location, was by-passed by railroads in the 1860s, becoming "the town that time forgot."

Village of Waucoma
The Village of Waucoma was established in 1846 by Dr. John Porter, who purchased land next to Cooksville from his Massachusetts friend, Senator Daniel Webster. Waucoma was laid out around a public square. Soon Greek Revival and Gothic Revival style houses, some of locally fired brick, were built by Yankee settlers, along with blacksmith shops, general stores, a hotel, a door and sash factory, a schoolhouse, and two churches. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, Cooksville is known as "a wee bit of New England in Wisconsin."
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HM NumberHMF0P
Series This marker is part of the Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society series
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Marker Number342
Year Placed1996
Placed ByThe Wisconsin Historical Society
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Sunday, October 12th, 2014 at 4:09pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)16T E 317233 N 4744923
Decimal Degrees42.83505000, -89.23628333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 42° 50.103', W 89° 14.177'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds42° 50' 6.18" N, 89° 14' 10.62" W
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Area Code(s)608
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 11200-11298 N Church St, Evansville WI 53536, US
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