From "History of Northern Wisconsin" - The Western Historical Company, A. T. Andreas, Proprietor 1881
Transcribed and submitted to the Waupaca County
Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm by Paula Vaughan

HELVETIA

This town is south of Shawano County, and west of Dupont and Union, being six miles east and west, and twelve north and south. The first settlement was made in 1853, by Andrew Poulson and Nels Jacobson. The first post office was established in 1868, with Cyrus Churchill for Postmaster.


From Wisconsin County Histories, Waupaca County Edited by John M. Ware 1917
Transcribed and submitted to the Waupaca County
Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm by Paula Vaughan  January 2002

 

HELVETIA AND WYOMING

 

The towns of Helvetia and Wyoming, in the northwestern part of Waupaca County, are well watered by tributaries of the Little Wolf and were formerly largely covered with pine forests. Helvetia, the mother town, was organized in 1861, and Wyoming set off from it in 1890.

 

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