Yankeetown, Wisconsin

Yankeetown, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
Yankeetown
Yankeetown
Coordinates: 43°22′48″N 90°47′52″W / 43.38000°N 90.79778°W / 43.38000; -90.79778Coordinates: 43°22′48″N 90°47′52″W / 43.38000°N 90.79778°W / 43.38000; -90.79778
Country United States
State Wisconsin
County Crawford
Town Clayton
Elevation 778 ft (237 m)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s) 608
GNIS feature ID 2760638[1]

Yankeetown is an unincorporated community in the town of Clayton, Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States, approximately two miles southwest of Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin on Wisconsin Highway 131.[1]

History

The cemetery there (still extant) was established around 1861; it is the oldest in the town of Clayton. In 1870 there was a schoolhouse there, which was used for services by a newly organized congregation of the Disciples of Christ.[2]

William Henry Evans, a farmer, lawyer, and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, lived in Yankeetown.[3]

The Yankeetown post office ceased to be listed in the Wisconsin Blue Book as of the 1883 edition.

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Yankeetown, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ History of Crawford and Richland Counties, Wisconsin. Together with sketches of their towns and villages, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens Springfield, Illinois, 1884; p. 579
  3. ↑ Turner, A. J., ed. The legislative manual of the state of Wisconsin: comprising the constitutions of the United States and of the state of Wisconsin, Jefferson's manual, forms and laws for the regulation of business; also, lists and tables for reference, etc. Thirteenth Annual Edition. Madison: Atwood and Culver, Printers and Stereotypers, 1874; p. 457


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