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Histories, History of WaupunDescription
History of Waupun: Unknown author, unknown date (after 1971). Page 3.
By 1857, a reluctant "Upper Town" finally submitted to the inevitable and a charter approving the joining of the two sections into the village was accepted. A Board of Trustees organized April 8, 1857, with Jeremiah Look elected president of the Trustees.
As the village grew, new streets were opened. Our Main Street of today was first called Washington Street. Soon others were opened and named for presidents and noted statesmen. They were Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklin, Jackson, Monroe and Taylor.
Fond du Lac Street was so named because it was direct route to Fond du Lac. Watertown, Madison, Beaver Dam and Fox Lake streets named too because they were direct routes to the respective cities.
In the 1858 directory, Oshkosh Road was mentioned, believed to have been the early name for Madison Street, also Front Street mentioned, which too is believed to have been another name for Madison Street.
In 1873, 73 streets were listed in the city directory, including Grove Street, so called because it crossed the place where the last oak grove stood; and Mill Street, because it was the road to the first saw mill and first flour mill.
Streets named for early settlers include Wilcox, Ackerman, Bly, Carrington, Hillyer, Forest, Bronson, Newton, Walker and Drummond. Drummond earlier had been called Scott Street after General Winfield Scott, who was said to have visited Waupun.
Other early streets and whom they were named are: Dr. J. W. Brown, Brown Street--he was an associate of Dr. Butterfield; Chapman, for Luella Chapman McCune; Cochrane, for John Cochrane who lived in the house by the present Dodge Park and was the first State Wisconsin Grand Master; Grace, for Grace Fletcher Blunt, whose father developed the Fletcher addition; Maxon, for T. W. Maxon who was a cigar manufacturer from 1876 until his death; Moore, for Dr. D. W. Moore; Morse for O. A. Morse, early wagon and carriage manufacturer; Olmstead, for a pioneer who came from the east to work with Lyman Barrows in a wood-working shop and mill; Rounsville for A. H. Rounsville, village president in 1861; Reinhardt for William Reinhardt, an early grocer and one of the first village trustees; Young for Leslie Young, early pioneer; Zimmerman, for F. F. Zimmerman, first wagon and carriage manufacturer. After Zimmerman discontinued the manufacture of carriages, he manufactured bodies for the Kissell Car Co. of Hartford.