Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-16

of trees, or there are certain physical
or natural characteristics OF the com
munity consistent with names OF
streets. Again, the locality and direc-
ton of the street offers name, as fol
instance, East Street, named from the
fact that it is located on the east line
of "Formerly Adams" Addition. Near
" all of the names of streets for the
city of Baraboo can be traced to some
one of the above named classes.
In determining the origin OF the
names of streets, one naturally turns
to the historical data, such as the
different histories of Sank county and
the recorded plats in the Register OF
Deeds office. There, we refresh our
memories by reviewing the record OF
the "Village of Adams, now called on
orr late maps of Baraboo. formerly
Adams" Addition. This plat occupies
the entire south east one quarter of
Section 35 in Township II North OF
Range East except a small portion
lying south of the Baraboo river. The
name Adams was suggested by Mr..
Brigham, one of the county commits
sioners, after the Adams family in
Massachusetts, whom he greatly ad-
lmired. The plat was recorded in April
1847 and about the same time, Mr..
George Brown had his land south of
the Baraboo river surveyed and plat
ted, calling it Baraboo. On the 14th.
of January 1849, the county commits
sioners caused the two above named
plats to be changed and known by the
name of Brooklyn. The two .respec-
tive villages, however, continued sep
arate till the village charter was OBJ
tanned in May 1856 which united them
under the name Baraboo. In the mean
time, Mr.. Garfield surveyed and plat
ted the village of Lyons in 1916 and
1847, thinking this location was the
logical one for the future metropolis
of Sank county. The name Lyons was
given by Mr.. Harvey Garfield for Ly-
ons, New York, where he formerly re-
sided ~ y
On account of the water power site
at the present location of the water
works pumping station, plat was
made and recorded Tin 1859 called the
Village of Manchester, comprising the
entire north east one quarter of Sec.
ton /. 1t was thought at that time
that Manchester would at least hold
its own with the village of Lyons,
which, in turn, was competing with
Baraboo, but Baraboo apparently out
distanced them all. - ,.ts-
From 1850 to July-1S55 there follow
ed the records of the following plats.
Mrs. Peck's, First, Walace's, Mrs.
browns, Thomas's, Camps, Browns,
Langdon's, and Litchfield's. The last
was laid out in July 1855 by R. G.
Camp who applied the name Litchfield
after Litchfield Conn, the birthplace
OF Mr. Camp.
In reviewing the names of streets
in the formally Adams" addition, the
county commissioners used the
numerals from First to Eighth street
for the streets running east and west.
First street was originally named
Bench street evidently from It's promi-
nent elevation and proximity to the
Baraboo river, but was afterwards
changed by the council to First street.
When the matter of numbering the
residences was presented, it was sug-
gested by Mr.. r. B. Griggs, through
Alderman L. o. Holmes, that the east
and west streets north of the Baraboo
river be divided at Oak street and that
west of Oak street be designated as
Avenues and east of Oak street be des-
ignated as Streets. This arrange
ment was thought preferable to the
usual method of naming them, as East
Eighth and West Eighth street, etc,
ard was effected by an Ordinance by
the City Council. This arrangement
was also carried out later on some of
the streets south of the river. For the
north and south streets, in the Adams
Addition, East street was named from
it's location on the east line Of Section
80 which is also the east line of the
Adams Addition. Center street was
similarly named from it's location on
the north and south center line of
Section So, as was also West street,
being located in the west portion of
the Adams Addition.
Broadway is named from the fact of
its being one. rod more in width than
all other streets excepting. Fourth Ave.
AS the successive plats were added
to the north from Adams, the east and
west streets naturally took their conT
.secutive thunderstorm Eighth to Four
teenth street
Summit, Ridge and Park streets
consistently took their names from