Colgate, Wisconsin
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#Unincorporated_communities_in_Washington_County,_Wisconsin
#Unincorporated_communities_in_Waukesha_County,_Wisconsin
#Unincorporated_communities_in_Wisconsin
Colgate is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Wisconsin, United States, straddling the county line with Waukesha County.
Colgate is located partially in the village of Richfield, and the town of Lisbon.
Its ZIP Code is 53017.
The population is around 300, up from about 50 in 1983.
The Fox River, an Illinois River tributary, rises in a small, unnamed swamp, 1 mi （1.6 km） southeast of the community of Colgate.
The Bark River also originates to the north and runs in a southwesterly direction.
The Canadian National Railway line runs North-South, and there was originally a depot there.
County Road Q, also known as County Line Road, is the main road in Colgate, and runs East-West along the border between Washington and Waukesha counties.
It was formerly called Main Street.
Colgate was known as Colgate Station at first.
It was named after James Colgate, a construction engineer for the rail line that still runs through the community.
The post office was established January 11, 1887, with its first postmaster being Andrew Ennis, Sr.
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It operated out of the railroad depot on the Lisbon side of Colgate.
Ennis was rappointed on July 21, 1887.
August B. Henshell was appointed postmaster in 1889.
On August 30, 1898 Henshell was replaced by Max Manthey.
Manthey owned the general store and was a supervisor on the Lisbon Town Board.
On October 1, 1898 the post office relocated to the general store, which was also on the south side （Lisbon side） of the road.
A cross-street on this side was named Wagner Street in his honor, which is now called Short Road.
This also had a cross street called Melville Street, which no longer exists.
The night of October 16, 1901, two Chicago-bound freight trains collided on the Wisconsin C...