Waupun is celebrating it’s 184th birthday this week. The community was formed March 20, 1839 by Seymour Wilcox, the first settler along the Rock River. Mayor Rohn Bishop says Waupun was originally supposed to be named “Waubun” but the state of Wisconsin made a spelling error, and Waupun’s founders never bothered to change it. The territorial census in 1847 showed the Town of Waupun to have a population of 956. The 1875 Wisconsin census showed the village of Waupun to have a population of 1,867. Almost 150 years later Waupun’s population is 11,500. Waupun is home to the oldest prison in the state, and is known as the City of Sculpture with a collection of outdoor sculptures by Clarence Shaler a manufacturer, inventor, and sculptor from the local area. These sculptures include The Dawn of Day, and a bronze copy of James Earle Fraser’s well-known “End of the Trail” statue stands in Shaler Park.
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
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A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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