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MUKWA The town of Mukwa is south of Lebanon and east of Royalton, adjoining
Outagamie County. J. G. Nordman first settled in the town in 1848, as
organization being affected in 1851, with James Smiley as Town Clerk. In 1852 a
schoolhouse was built, Mrs. Stevens being the teacher. The Catholics erected the
first church building at Northport in 1855. C. E. P. Hobart kept the first store
in Mukwa in 1850, and Mr. Hale built the first saw-mill at New London in 1857.
The former gentleman was Mukwa's first Postmaster in 1851. That courier of this
region, "Capt. Jack", brought the mail once a week in a coon-skin bag. From Wisconsin County Histories, Waupaca County Edited by John M. Ware 1917
Transcribed and submitted to the Waupaca County
MUKWA TOWNSHIP
Mukwa was one of the six townships into which the county was divided at a meeting of the county board held in the Village of Mukwa March 5, 1852. It was the third to be created that day and was described as townships 21 and 22, range 14 east, and embraced what are now Caledonia and Mukwa Townships, and the eight eastern sections of Fremont. There is little history of the town to be recorded outside of the old county seat, New London and Northport, and the details of their settlement and varied fortunes have already been set forth. At the first town meeting, held at the house of Horace Rolph, the hotel man, on April 6, 1852, W. N. Davis was elected chairman and James Smiley, town clerk.
Mukwa is a wealthy town outside of New London. Its lands are valued at $983,514, and, with personal property, these figures are brought up to $1,123,366. It is so well watered by the Wolf River and its tributaries, that live stock has always flourished and been a large source of agricultural income. No township stands better as a raiser of horses. The last figures returned by the assessor show that its farmers own 452 equines, valued at $52,220, or an average per head of $115.53. That is the highest average in the county, the nearest township to Mukwa in this respect being Iola, $112.08. The township has also 1,789 head of neat cattle valued at $62,651, or an average per head of $35.02; in that item Mukwa is second among the townships, being only surpassed by Scandinavia, with an average of $35.35.
The public educational advantages correspond with such a showing of material well-being. Superintendent Bigford reports that the Town of Mukwa has a population of 304 between four and twenty years of age, and that there are four rural and one graded schools provided for it.
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