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S 04-27-1876 |
Bernard Ebbers bought house of Henry Efting and rented it to John Heinrich, newly married. |
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Dec. 27, 1835 |
F 11/16/1898 - On Dec. 27, 1835, Moses Smith, William Whiting, B. C. Pierce / Perce and Lemuel Smith built a shanty in grove in river bend on east side of Fox river. They cut a large white oak tree near where malt house now stands, built a rude log hut on present farm of David Bushnell, spent 3 days prospecting and surveying on both sides of the river, and finally constructed a cabin on the west side. |
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1836 |
F 11/16/1898 - In January 1836 Enoch D. Woodbridge built the body of a log house on the east side, which afterwards formed part of the tavern kept by Ruel Nims. In February 1836 Nathan H. Darling made a claim for Nelson R. Norton on what is known as the Rooker farm. In April 1836 Moses Smith took up his residence in a shanty on the west side of the river and in May built a log house near where the Ayers mill is situated. In the latter part of May, James Nelson built a log house and blacksmith shop near what is now the south end of Durgin's bridge. In June B. C. Pierce / Perce erected a building for a store, which was recently standing on the bank of the mill pond just outside the old fair grounds. |
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April 1836 |
Moses Smith built shanty where Burlington Feed company now stands. (F 6/6/1929 - Paper prepared by Elizabeth Wilson for Historical Society.) |
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May 1836 |
Moses Smith is credited with having built the first house within what was, in 1916, the city limits. He located his claim on the west side of the Fox River and, in May 1836, built a log house, having passed the winter in a hastily constructed shanty on the east side in company with William Whiting, B. C. Perce, and Lemuel Smith. ("Racine, Belle City of the Lakes, and Racine County," vol. I, 1916, p. 158.) |
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1836 |
F 8/15/06, L. O. Whitman reminiscence - Moses Smith built the first log house in Burlington in 1836. Second log house built a few months later by Peter Vanalstine on land he later bought from the Government Third log cabin built by Ephraim Perkins in 1837 and used as a store by his son, Pliny. Fourth log cabin - a double log structure of large proportions - built by Origen Perkins near site later occupied by the Brick & Tile factory. |
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1836 |
The first permanent building in the village was a log house built by Enoch D. Woodbridge, on the east side of the river, which afterward formed a part of a tavern kept by Ruel Nims; but a house built by Moses Smith in May 1836 near where the Perkins mill was situated was considered the first residence in Burlington. Smith's house stood until 1875. (Burlington Schools, Board of Education report, 1898, p. 19.) |
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1836 |
Some time in the fall of 1835 or spring of 1836, Enoch D. Woodbridge made a claim to a quarter section of land at the forks of the Fox and White Rivers, lying on both sides of the Fox and extending some 20 or 30 rods north to the mouth of the White River. Immediately after making the claim, Woodbridge built a small log house about 12 feet square. In July 1836 Enoch D. Putnam built a log house 19 feet square about 14 feet east of Woodbridge's building and filled up the space between the two buildings with frame work. (Enoch D. Putnam's April 13, 1885, letter in S 4/18/1885.) |
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1836 |
In summer of 1836, Enoch D. Putnam built a house on the high land on the east side of the Fox river, about 70 or 80 rods below the mouth of White River. Only other houses in the vicinity were those of Moses Smith, on the west side of the river and about 75 or 80 rods above the mouth of White River, and about a half mile up the river was another house in which Milo Hayes and his family lived. Palmer Gardner had also built a shanty on the west side of what is now called Gardner's Prairie. (Enoch D. Putnam's March 29, 1885, letter in S 4/4/1885.) |
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1836 |
In the fall of 1836, Dr. Edward G. Dyer came to Foxville, staying at brother-in-law Origen Perkins' rough shanty, about 10 by 12 feet, made of logs and puncheons split out of logs as substitutes for boards. There was no chimney, except a hole for smoke. The fire was in one corner on the ground, with a flat stone for a chimney back. Dr. Dyer stayed there about 5 weeks. (150+ Years, page 4.) (Note: A puncheon floor is a floor made of logs sawed in half with the convex side down and the flat side up. - F 2/27/1930.) |
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1836-1837 |
Reuel and Lucinda Nims came to Chicago in fall of 1833. In 1836 Reuel came to settlement (later named Burlington) and completed a log cabin. On Jan. 10, 1837, he brought his family to this place. From S 1/14/05 obituary of Franklin Nims, son of Reuel and Lucinda. |
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1837 |
In winter of 1836/1837, Reual / Reuel / Ruel Nims, father of Franklin Nims, bought Enoch Putnam's house, completed and made some additions to it, and opened it as a tavern. (Enoch D. Putnam's March 29, 1885, letter in S 4/4/1885.) |
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1837 |
Ruel Nims opened first “public house” for travelers in Burlington in 1837 in cabin he had bought from Enoch Woodbridge; Woodbridge began cabin in July 1836 on east side of the Fox river on “claim” Woodbridge had “jumped” from David Bushnell, who had gone east to get his family. (Rev. Thomas Fait’s 1991 booklet on 1st 10 years of St. Sebastian / St. Mary’s parish, p. 8.) |
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1837 |
Nelson R. Norton came here with family in March 1837 and settled on what was known in 1896 as the Rooker farm (north side of White river); a few years later, he bought what was known in 1896 as the McCanna & Fraser Co. farm (later Edgewood Stock Farm) - S 6/20/1896 obituary. |
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August 1837 |
Lewis Royce came to Burlington in August 1837 and built a log cabin near where the Western Union Railroad depot was later built (Market St. area west of McHenry St.). He later built the large stone residence where the Catholic school Sisters lived in 1879 (that house was about where St. Mary’s High School was later built). (Source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin, 1879, p. 650.) |
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1838 |
Ruel Nims sold his “tavern” to Stephen Bushnell within a year after opening it (in 1837) in the former Woodbridge cabin on the east side of the Fox river. (Rev. Thomas Fait’s 1991 booklet on 1st 10 years of St. Sebastian / St. Mary’s parish, p. 8.) |
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1838 |
VanAlstine family settled on farm 1-1/2 miles north of Burlington on Rochester road in 1838; moved to Burlington in early 1850s. (From Mrs. J. E. Bartholf obituary, S 12/15/11.) |
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1839 |
Nelson Norton built first two-story frame house on east side of Fox river on land later occupied by McCanna farm (Edgewood Stock Farm). (L. O. Whitman - F 8/15/1906) S 6/20/1896 - Norton's obituary said house was framed in Chicago and hauled in wagons to Burlington. Note: Photo of Norton house in Historical Society collection. |
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April 1839 |
On April 11, 1839, Clark K. Norton came to Burlington and bought 50 acres from Samuel Lane (who owned land in section 33, per 150+ Years book, p. 11). (Source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin, Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879, p. 647) |
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June 1840 |
On the 1st of June, 1840, with an ox-sled on bare ground, Dr. Edward G. Dyer and his family moved to the new home - the first frame house in the settlement. (From paper read by Mabel Norton, granddaughter of Dr. Dyer, at June 1935 unveiling of monument dedicated to Dr. Dyer.) |
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Apr. 19, 1842 |
Southport Telegraph - In Burlington, a number of brick dwelling houses are under contract to be built this summer. |
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Feb. 21, 1843 |
Ephraim Perkins has farm of 550 acres in, adjoining, or near the village of Burlington. |
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1843 |
In the spring of 1843, Joseph Noble moved from English Settlement to Burlington and lived in a small log house standing on the ground now occupied by the Exchange Hotel - S 7/25/1885. |
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1844 |
David Wells built house in 1844 on corner of Chestnut & Conkey sts. In 1954 the house was being used as Burlington's Greyhound bus station - by Antoinette Meinhardt Fulton in S 4/15/1954. |
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1846 |
Marie and George Wenner lived 4 miles from Burlington towards Wheatland across the Fox river. S 4/5/1890 - brother, Antone Wenner, also known as John Warner, seeking their whereabouts. |
