Dover, Wisconsin
Posted by: BruceS
N 43° 09.738 W 089° 50.323
16T E 269224 N 4782750
Site of the former village of Dover, Wisconsin
Waymark Code: WM1QHA
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 06/24/2007
Views: 134
Text of marker:
VILLAGE OF DOVER
Beginning in 1844, nearly 700 setters were brought into this
area by the British Temperance & Emigration Society, organized the previous year
in Liverpool, England. By 1850 Dover boasted a hotel, post office, cooper,
blacksmith, shoemaker, wagon shop and stores. When the railroad chose
Mazomanie for a depot site and made no stop in Dover, Doverites moved their
houses into Mazomanie and Dover faded away to become a ghost town. A local
boy who made good was John Appleby, inventor of the knotter on the grain binder.
The idea came to Applyby as he watched the monotonously regular movement of his
mother's hands in knitting. In 1867 he successfully demonstrated his
revolutionary "contraption" in a wheat field east of the cemetery.