Once Upon a House

Summer 1840

An organized school was set up in the shanty first occupied by the Ogdens.

The regionGrade A · 1 independent source

The evidence

  • “We had in the territory, the foundation of a system mapped out but out side of Milwaukee, there were but few attempts to put it in practice. I think not till 1840 did we have an organized school. Then we secured the shanty first occupied by the Ogdens, they having built quite a respectable log house near the cabin for themselves.”

    1900-caswell-reminiscences/06-indian-life-at-koshkonong.md, PDF pp. 3–27

    Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

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