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    Green County
    Green County
    Green County
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    Green County

    By Kim Tschudy

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    This book presents a glimpse into Green County's colorful and historic past. Not only are the communities of present-day Green County included, but also within are the ghost towns Attica, Dayton, Dutch Hollow, Martintown, Postville, and Schultz. While far from a complete photographic history of Green County, the reader will get a glimpse of many of the lesser-known facets of its history, both physical and personal. It is the author's hope that this book will serve as a beginning point for the reader to venture deeper into Green County's collective past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781439625767
    Green County
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    Kim Tschudy

    Kim Tschudy is a native of Green County with family roots going back to 1846. Tschudy has been a reporter and writer for over two decades, having published well over 500 articles in three countries. His day job is working at the University of Wisconsin as a maintenance supervisor. For the past 23 years, he’s been an adult education instructor at the University of Wisconsin, teaching primarily natural science and history classes. He serves as the president of the New Glarus Depot Preservation and New Glarus Town Hall Preservation Societies. In his spare time, he restores historic buildings in Wisconsin and Iowa.

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      Green County - Kim Tschudy

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      INTRODUCTION

      Green County is my home. Its hills in the town of Exeter have nurtured my ancestors since 1846. Within the next few years, the holding in trust of the land will be passed to the sixth and seventh generations.

      It takes a lifetime to understand the emotional power of walking ancestral land. But so often it takes the eyes and mind of a five-year-old to put that emotion into perspective. This past August, my grandson and I camped out on what we lovingly call, the hill, a treeless, shallow-soiled hilltop.

      Our campout was for the purpose of watching the Perseid meteor shower that each August fills the sky with several nights of nature’s best light show. This replay of times past brought back memories of three decades ago when my then young sons, their friends, and I slept on the hill under the stars to watch in awe this annual event.

      The night’s campfire had turned from leaping flames to glowing embers. My son Terry and granddaughter Mackenzie had gone back to town. Kyle and I were now stretched out on our backs to stare at the August sky watching for meteorites.

      I wondered as we watched the sky that night if Uncle J. J. took his children up on the hill in the late 1840s to show them the splendor of the August night sky. Did his children talk about the Native Americans that lived in the area? My own grandfather once told me of the periodic reappearance of a family of hungry Winnebago Indians who would work their way into New Glarus asking for food from the people who had taken over their ancestral lands.

      Shortly after first light I awoke to find Kyle wide awake. Grandpa, I have an idea. Let’s go out Indian hunting.

      Indian hunting?

      Yes grandpa, you know, let’s hike around and see if we can find things the Indians left behind when they lived here. Grandpa, Indians did live here, didn’t they? The history of the land being what it is, I decided to talk with Kyle about the Native Americans who once called this land theirs.

      Kyle’s question was a bittersweet one. The people who lived upon these hills before my ancestors arrived have been long forgotten. Precious little remains of their lives—only a few artifacts and the broken dreams of an earlier people.

      We broke camp and drove to Attica. As we got into town, Kyle asked, Where are we now?

      We’re in Attica.

      What’s Attica?

      Attica is a ghost town.

      Grandpa, I think there are ghosts here!

      There are no ghosts here, Kyle.

      Over there across the river is where the Winnebago Indians had their camp many years ago.

      Were there a lot of Indians here? Did they have children my age? What did they do? Where are they now, Grandpa?

      Kyle’s questions haunted me. Why do we ask these questions? Is it out of curious interest? Maybe a sadness at not being able to see the Winnebago people here? Or is it that we know so precious little about our own backyard?

      The history of Green County is steeped with quiet people who have made a tremendous impact on humanity, and yet precious little is known of them or their acts. One recent Sunday I photographed the home of Janet Jennings, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. There was nothing significant about her home, and that forced questions: Who was Janet Jennings? What did she do?

      Quite to my surprise, she had quite a life story, and her humanitarian acts speak strongly to the notion of quiet and humble people doing great things. Known as the Forgotten Angel and the Angel of Seneca by those she served, Janet Jennings was one of the true heroes of the Civil War and also the Spanish-American War. Among Jennings’s many acts, she worked alongside Clara Barton in establishing the American Red Cross.

      Likewise is the story of Robert Bailey, the lone Revolutionary War veteran buried in Green County. Bailey, a humble man of conscience, was one of the early abolitionists. In 1814, while living in the South, Bailey had come to the conclusion that slavery was just not acceptable, and he gave his slaves their freedom.

      Kyle was correct: there are ghosts in Attica and in many other places in Green County . . . the good ghosts of our collective past.

      —Kim D. Tschudy

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      ALBANY

      Here is the Albany Linen Factory. In 1892, Andrew Fleming purchased the old woolen mill and, along with his sister, converted the operation to a linen mill that produced linen toweling. Initially some of the raw material came from England but was later produced locally. The mill ceased operations in 1907. (Albany Historical Society.)

      Shown in the middle of this photograph is a small cabin that was built on a small island just upriver from the dam that created Lake Winnetka. Local historians say that this island broke loose from an upper portion of Lake Winnetka during a bad storm, floated downriver, and lodged in this spot. The path leading from the lakeshore directly behind the cabin leads to the Whitcomb home, which in later years

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