A standard history of Sauk County, Wisconsin : an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial, industrial, educational, civic and social development . edsburg and Ironton townships in 1844, Theseincluded 1% sections west of what is now Reedsburg City and120 acres in the Township of Ironton. With his son John, he came tothe Narrows Creek Gap in May, 1845. Proceeding further up the riverthey reached the fertile tract comprising what became Babbs Prairie andwhere they made their principal claim. In December, after they hadmade some improvements a
A standard history of Sauk County, Wisconsin : an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial, industrial, educational, civic and social development . edsburg and Ironton townships in 1844, Theseincluded 1% sections west of what is now Reedsburg City and120 acres in the Township of Ironton. With his son John, he came tothe Narrows Creek Gap in May, 1845. Proceeding further up the riverthey reached the fertile tract comprising what became Babbs Prairie andwhere they made their principal claim. In December, after they hadmade some improvements and laid in a stock of provisions at Baraboo,he returned to his home in Ohio and, early in the spring, accompaniedby his sons, Strother and John, the wife of the latter and WashingtonGray, he settled himself and his little colony at the Ford. Afterward hebrought out his wife, another son, his daughter Betsey, and, as stated,the latters husband, Sterne Baker. Thus the settlement grew apace andsuch other promoters as David C. Reed and Mr. Powell rather displacedthe original proprietor. But the settlement which developed into Reeds-burg was a fixture and Mr, Babb has always been acknowledged as its.
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