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This page is a hub to
information that includes:
Board of Review,
Garbage Collection,
Algoma Sanitary District,
Town Ordinances,
Permits,
Voting in the Town,
Channel 97 TV Schedule,
Rent the Town Hall and
Volunteer. Links to
these pages are located to the left.
In 1803-1860 it is
documented that the lands lying between the
Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and encompassing the
present states of Ohio, upper and lower
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part
of upper Minnesota were called the Northwest
Territory. In 1846, a document was signed
setting aside portions of land for a canal which
encompassed the Fox River.
In 1849, President Zachary Taylor signed a
document releasing some of these lands, thereby
making them available for purchase for
homesteads. The document released lands
described as Town 18, Range 16, Section 21,
further described as the Town of Algoma. Some of
these lands were documented as purchased as
early as 1847, although the State of Wisconsin
was not officially formed until 1848, and at
that time the Town of Algoma officially became
part of the state.
"No town in the county contains less waste land
and none is better watered with springs. The
town was mostly burr oak openings with here and
there a small prairie or natural meadow, while
in Sec. 28 and 29 was a large grove of forest
timber. The village of Algoma (now included in
the fifth ward of the city of Oshkosh) was
started in the summer of 1846 by C. J. Coon,
Thomas C. Baker, James Whittemore, D. W. Forman,
Wm. Daggett and others. A store was started and
well supplied with goods by Mr. Baker; an
excellent saw mill was started by Messrs. Forman
& Daggett, and a Hotel erected by Mr. Coon. The
location being at the old crossing of the trail
from Fort Winnebago to Green Bay, it at first
bid fair to become the main point on the river,
but with poor management or position, Oshkosh
finally took the lead and at length absorbed its
early rival. Farms can be bought in the town of
Algoma, from fifteen to fifty dollars per acre,
according to the character and amount of
improvements. In this town in 1855 there were
five schools, 316 scholars. Population 850."
(From the book, Geographical and Statistical
History of the County of Winnebago, Published by
Martin Mitchel and Joseph H. Osborn; Markham and
Felrer, Book and Job Printers, Oshkosh, 1856)
The original town hall building was built in
1872 and was called the Algoma Grange Hall. An
early town board meeting was recorded April 17,
1877.
Looking South on North Oakwood Road from Lake
Butte des Morts, circa 1910.
The painting, "Spring at Quail Trap School" by
Nile Behnke. The Quail Trap School (circa 1865
to 1954) stood on the present site of Oakwood
School. The name "quail trap" originated from
neighborhood boys setting traps to catch quail
in the vicinity.
Frank Leonard Milk Wagon (circa 1919). Leonard
farmed on the east side of Leonard Point Road to
the lake, hence the name Leonard Point Road and
Lane. Other Town of Algoma dairy farmers who
delivered milk to the City of Oshkosh: Wood,
Cowan, Kohls, Grunske, Zelhofer, Moon, and
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