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Dodge County WIGenWeb |
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| Welcome to the Dodge County
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Dodge County was created in 1836 and named in honor of Henry Dodge, then territorial governor of Wisconsin. The Town of Victory was chosen as the county seat.It was later renamed Juneau, after the son of Solomon Juneau, who founded Milwaukee. The discovery of iron ore in Mayville in 1845 established mining as an industry in the county. The mines operated for several decades until competition from Lake Superior mines forced them to close. During this time, sawmills and gristmills were widely distributed throughout the county. In 1875, John Jossie emigrated from Switzerland to Dodge County, where he developed brick cheese and later opened the country's first brick cheese factory in Watertown, which operated until 1943. |
| Volunteers Needed If you would like to contribute information to this web site, or have books, cemetery surveys, vital records, obituaries, census records or any other genealogical information for Dodge County, WI and are a) willing to volunteer to do LookUps for others or b) willing to let their information be indexed for the site. Please contact the county coordinator. Thanks! | In 2023, Rootsweb was dissolved, displacing many of the WIGenWeb counties. Many thanks to the former County Coordinators Clare Guse and Shelley Green for maintaining this site. This county is now up for adoption. |
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WIGenWeb State Coordinator:
Marcia Ann Kuehl WIGenWeb Assistant State Coordinator: Rebecca Maloney Copyright 2010 - by the WIGenWeb Team. All rights reserved. Copyright of submitted items belongs to those responsible for their authorship or creation unless otherwise assigned. |
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