A Pennsylvania Dutch family named "Meeks" claimed the land where Shopiere is and built a shanty; about the same time a company from Connecticut claimed on the north side of the Turtle opposite Shopiere.

The evidence

• “In early days Shopiere was called Waterloo. About the year 1837 a Pennsylvania Dutch family named "Meeks" claimed the land where Shopiere is, and built a shanty. The father and mother, five sons and five daughters averaged 200 pounds each, and were called "Borderers." About the same time, a company from Connecticut claimed on the north side of the Turtle opposite Shopiere. This colony was composed of entirely different people. In the latter part of the summer of 1837, when both parties began cutting hay on the bottom at the north side of the stream, the Yankees were likely to get all of it, and leave nothing for the one cow that Meeks owned.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 204 / book p. 708

  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.

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