New Cassel, Wisconsin
New Cassel or New Cassell, formerly Crouchville, was a village on the
Town of Auburn in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.[1] It was eventually absorbed into Campbellsport, Wisconsin (the two had been called "The Twin Villages"[2]
) after the latter was incorporated in 1902, and now constitutes the east end of that village.
It was the first settlement in Auburn, having been founded by one Ludin Crouch, a schoolteacher from New York State. Crouch and a
Hesse-Cassel, but never completed the flour mill. At that time, the local post office, previously called the Auburn post office, was moved to the New Cassel mill and given the same name as the village.[3]
By 1868, there was a hotel, a flour mill, three churches (
On April 28, 1874, Emma Franziska Höll (Sister Mary Alexia) and two other nuns arrived in New Cassel from
Chippewa Indians in Reserve, Wisconsin and what would eventually become the SSSF motherhouse in Milwaukee.[5]
As late as the Wisconsin State Gazetteer, 1919-20 it was listed as a separate settlement. The New Cassel post office was discontinued between 1923 and 1925.[6]
Notable people
- James Bamnnon, Wisconsin state legislator
- Louis Eidemiller, Wisconsin state legislator and physician
- The School Sisters of St. Francis, an order of teaching nuns founded and headquartered in New Cassel.
References
- ^ "New Cassel, Campbellsport" (Map). Illustrated Atlas Map of Fond du Lac County. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin: Harney and Tucker. 1874.
- ^ Weekly Wisconsin April 16, 1898; p.6
- ^ Western Historical Co. The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin: Containing ... War Record, Biographical Sketches ... History of Wisconsin ... Etc. Chicago: Western historical company, 1880; pp. 736-738
- ^ Fond du Lac county gazetteer : containing directories of Fond du Lac, Ripon and Waupun, and historical and descriptive sketches of the several townships of the county Fond du Lac: Commonwealth Power Press Printing Establishment, 1868; p. 16
- ^ "Höll, Emma Franziska" in, Litoff, Judy Barrett and Judith McDonnell, eds. European Immigrant Women in the United States: A Biographical Dictionary New York: Garland, 1994; pp. 143-144.
- ^ Holmes, Fred L., ed. The Wisconsin blue book, 1925 Madison: Democrat Printing Company, State Printer, 1925; p. 714
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