The Milwaukee & Mississippi railroad was built to a village (later identified as Hanover/Shopiere area).

The evidence

• “William Ranny as postmaster. In 1857 the Milwaukee & Mississippi railroad, now the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, was built to this village, and later was followed by the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, which forms a junction with the St.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 163 / book p. 670

  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