Historic Fort Atkinson

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About the Collection

Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin is located in the south-central part of the state within Jefferson County. The area that was to become Fort Atkinson was settled by Dwight Foster and his family in 1836. Mr. Foster found an area marked by the native people, who had lived along its waterways, with mounds and the famous panther effigy intaglio. With a population in the 2000 census of 11,621, Fort Atkinson is the second largest city in Jefferson County. The Rock River cuts through the city and has been a major feature throughout the history of the area. Lake Koshkonong is located just southwest of Fort Atkinson and the community is surrounded by the marshes, creeks and rivers of the watershed.

Main Street in Fort Atkinson crosses the Rock River and the current bridge is the third to provide safe passage across. The photograph collection contains images of citizens and businesses along Main Street beginning about 1880 and progressing through the early 1970's. They are part of the historical photograph collection at the Hoard Historical Museum in Fort Atkinson.

Funding

Historic Fort Atkinson was funded, in part, through a 2007 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant. This grant provided financial support for public libraries to digitize and make available online, their local library resources. For more information about LSTA grants in Wisconsin, contact the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning or visit the LSTA grant Web site at http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dltcl/pld/lsta.html.

Technical Note

Please note that full-text searching for the electronic-facsimile texts in our collections is based on uncorrected OCR (Optical Character Recognition) results. While such text is often highly accurate, it will contain errors that may affect your search results. In particular, texts with the following characteristics are particularly prone to error (in some cases, accuracy for such texts is so low that we have decided not to attempt to provide full-text searching):

• Hand-written texts;
• Texts that contain diacritics;
• Texts that contain non-Latin scripts;
• Texts that contain obsolete characters (including the "long S" [looks like an "f"]);
• Texts that are printed in a font in which the letters are difficult for the software to differentiate.