Summary Information

Title: School District No. 4, Town of Pleasant Springs (Dane County, Wis.): Magelson School Records
Inclusive Dates: 1849-1952

Creator:

• School District No. 4, Town of Pleasant Springs (Dane County, Wis.)

Call Number: Dane Series 317

Quantity: 0.8 c.f (12 volumes and 2 folders in one half archives box and one flat box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

School district record volumes consisting of annual meeting minutes and financial reports (1849-1897), treasurers' books (1857-1952), pupil registers (1872-1875, 1900-1944), and a 100th anniversary reunion book (1949) containing a history, list of teachers, and reunion attendees. Other records in folders include: 1) tax rolls (1849, 1852), contracts to build school house (1849, 1870), clerks' and treasurers' reports, memoranda concerning school district boundary changes, and an 1850 appeal to the State Superintendent by many Norwegian residents to settle a disagreement with the Americans about building the school house; 2) pupil registers (1853-1854), teacher contracts (1850-1861), and treasurers' bonds (1849-1869).

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-dane0317

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