The first schoolhouse at Shopiere was built.

The evidence

• “Giles Fonda died, and was the first person buried there. The first schoolhouse was built in 1856. In 1879 a strong Temperance Society was formed, called "The Eed and Blue." During the last thirty years, 1879 to 1908, Shopiere has lost about 200 inhabitants, but makes up in quality what it lacks in quantity.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 171 / book p. 678

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources