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Croix falls, where they landed on the west side Froe and cordelled their boat, and with poles and lines ascended to Snake river He engaged for so, and worked at the falls until 1841, when he settled on a beautiful farm, on a part of which Afton is now situated Mr Mackey was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1804, and (in 1888) is still living His wife died in 1873

BAYTOWN

Coe 20 The surface is so to the lake bluff forinally it was covered with oaks or oak openings It derives its na the western shore of Lake St Croix At South Stillwater village a considerable streas and forood water power in its descent to the lake

Two flour mills are located on this stream In 1842 Francis Bruce built a house on the present site of the office of the St Croix Lu post at what has been since known as Kittson's Point Both of these parties left in 1844 and John Allen built a house and cultivated a field on the east side of Kittson's Point Allen sold the place in 1846 and removed to California He raised the first crops in the town In 1847 Joseph Pero beca creek Other parties made claims and abandoned or sold them

Fiske & Marty located here in 1848 In 1860 came Ambrose Secrest and some others In 1852 Nelson, Loomis & Co built a steam saw mill on the bay In 1854 Secrest & Booth built a flour anized as a town The first supervisors were Ambrose Secrest, John Parker and W H Crosby; John J Hale, clerk

BAYTOWN VILLAGE

Socrates Nelson, D B Loomis, Levi Churchill, Daniel Mears, and Jae of Baytown Harvey Wilson was the surveyor The location was on the lake shore, lots 3 and 4, section 11, and lot 7, section 2 In 1872 a post office was established called South Stillwater; William Graves, postmaster

BANGOR VILLAGE

Was platted May 1857, by C I and J E Whitney, Albert and Edwin Caldwell, Wm Hollinshead, Isaac Staples, and A J Short; J J

Carleton, surveyor It was situated on the shore of the lake south of Baytown

MIDDLETOWN VILLAGE

Was platted in July, 1857, in parts of sections 2 and 3, by William Holcomb; Myron B Shepard, surveyor

SOUTH STILLWATER

Was platted in January, 1873, by the St Croix Railway Improvement Company; Peter Berkey, president; A B Stickney, secretary; J S

Sewall, surveyor South Stillwater was or and Middletown It has prospered greatly as a e In 1854 Torinus, Staples & Co built a steam saw mill, to which fro establishments Subsequently the fir of 1876 this company sustained a loss by fire on their mill and appurtenances to the value of 70,000, which was not insured: With indo business men in this firm were Louis Torinus and William Chalmers Turnbull's steam saw mill, on the lake shore, has a capacity of 100,000 feet per day The property is valued at 70,000 The South Stillwater Lumber Company has a mill with a capacity of 90,000 feet per day, with planer and other machinery attached, in which they have invested 70,000 The firm consists of D

Tozer, A T Jenks, H McGlinn, E W Durant, and R Wheeler The mills of the Herschey Lumber Company, valued at 70,000, have a capacity of 100,000 feet per day The proprietor, ---- Herschey, lives in Muscatine, Iowa

The Stillwater Dock Coanized in 1877 The company consists of Durant, Wheeler & Co, St Croix Lumber Company and Jonah Bachelder They have built reat convenience to steamboat lumbermen The South Stillwater Soap Factory, owned by McKenzie & Co, deserves honorable mention The construction of the branch railroad from Stillwater in 1872, and the St Paul & Milwaukee railroad, built in 1883, have greatly increased the prosperity of the village Aside from mills and manufactories there are many private residences, one hotel, stores, shops, a Lutheran church, and a school house There are three cee limits known as Hazlewood, St Michael's, and the potter's field The block for the former was contributed by Secrest & Pero, in 1858 St Michael's was established by the Catholics in 1873 The potter's field was established by the city of Stillwater in 1873 The first death in the limits of South Stillwater was that of Sylvester, son of Joseph Pero South Stillwater was organized in 1881 First board of officers were: President, B E

Meigs; clerk, Edward Ivison; councilor; justice of the peace, Araded school with four departments

COTTAGE GROVE

Includes townshi+p 27 and a fractional part of townshi+p 26, range 21

It was organized as a town in October, 1858; James S Norris, moderator; Williaer, judges of election; Williauson, Lewis Hill, James S Davis, Jonathan Brown, and Jacob Moshi+er were the first settlers, locating here in 1844 The first e was that of Henry W Crosby to Hannah Waterman, in 1854 The first child born was Nathan, son of John Atkinson, in 1846; the first death was that of Mehitable, wife of P P Furber, in 1851

A post office was established at Cottage Grove village in 1850; J W

Furber was posto, Milwaukee & St Paul railroad was coh the town in 1871 With its fine natural advantages of soil, and its convenient access to e Grove is well settled and prosperous

COTTAGE GROVE VILLAGE

Is situated in section 12 It is a pleasant inland village, well supplied with stores, shops and dwellings It has one hotel, one school house and three churches, Congregational, Evangelical Geranized in 1858, Rev B Hall, pastor; the Evangelical in 1874; the Methodist soanization The village was platted in April, 1871, by John P and S W Furber, Jaaret M Ellwell and Clarence Smith, in the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 12; J W Furber, surveyor

LANGDON VILLAGE