William Hall, first postmaster and first photographer, came to Fulton Depot (now Edgerton) in 1853.

The evidence

• “Mr. William Hall, who was the first postmaster as well as the first photographer, came to Fulton Depot, now Edgerton, in 1853. He built the building now owned and occupied by Mrs.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 146 / book p. 654

  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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