Rob Bowe In the late 1840s into the 1850s, in northeast Dodge County the villages of Horicon, Mayville, Theresa, Farmersville, LeRoy and Lomira attracted Yankee investors, mostly from New York, Massachusetts and Vermont. They invested in iron mining and smelting, and the building of saw and grain mills, retail stores and shops, all of which attracted a mixture of professional businessmen, American and European laborers, craftsmen and tradesmen.

Land Between The Marshes Part 3 – Lomira Early Settlers ROB BOWE Contributor Most of Lomira Township's early settlers started to arrive in 1848 into the 1850s, though Phineas Samuel Kinyon was squatting on land near the present day Village of Lomira in 1844. Kinyon was a New Yorker. In Lomira he hunted, fished and started to clear some land in order to survive. This was the basic

ROB BOWE Contributor During the summer 1843, the Martin 'Friedrich' Christian family and hundreds of other Old Lutheran immigrant families from Pommern and Brandenburg Provinces in Prussia arrived in New York. In short order the group made its way by steamship up the Hudson River to Albany, N.Y. From Albany the

ROB BOWE Contributor Note: This is the first in a series of articles by Rob Bowe dedicated to the history of Lomira, Theresa and surrounding communities – the land between the marshes. In 1833, part of Wisconsin was surveyed. In 1838, U.S. Congress created the Wisconsin Territory and Dodge County, carved out of the Northwest Territory. The census that year showed 18 white men in the county.