The history of Sauk County, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources ..biographical sketches .. . alry and jealousy between different portionsof the county. The original village plat belonged to D. C. Reed and George H. Irwin, a rela-tive of Reeds; one owning the land south, and the other that north of Main street. Theadditions to Reedsburg are Mackeys First, made August, 1853, and Dwinnells Addition, madeabout the same time; Mackeys Second and Third Additions, Motts three Additions, and Addition. The village was laid out and platted in 18
The history of Sauk County, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources ..biographical sketches .. . alry and jealousy between different portionsof the county. The original village plat belonged to D. C. Reed and George H. Irwin, a rela-tive of Reeds; one owning the land south, and the other that north of Main street. Theadditions to Reedsburg are Mackeys First, made August, 1853, and Dwinnells Addition, madeabout the same time; Mackeys Second and Third Additions, Motts three Additions, and Addition. The village was laid out and platted in 1852. In the spring of 1851, occurred the somewhat famous saw-log war, or better known prob-ably as the Baraboo war. It was then a common thing for early settlers engaged in the loggingbusiness to cut timber from the vast domains of Uncle Sam without his permission, and beforethe old gentleman surveyed and sold his hinds in that region, there was a wide expanse alongthe upper waters of the Baraboo covered with tall and graceful pines. Among others who cutand rafted saw-logs from this section were George and Edward Willard, of Baraboo. The. y£*/r(,teC^ /J?,(CX< REEDSBURG HISTORY OF SAUK COUNTY. 561 building of a dam at Reedsburg seriously interfered with the successful pursuit of rafting, and itsoon became optional upon the part of Mr. Reed for rafts to pass over the darn. It finallyoccurred to him that it would be to his interest to prohibit further operations of this kind. Indoing so, he would not only prevent the probable demolition of his dam, but it was in the naturalorder of things that the large number of logs then lying in the stream could be purchased at alow price, and made into lumber at his mill. But the Willards insisted upon their right to passtheir logs over the dam, and when Mr. Reed, backed by the citizens of Reedsburg, positivelyrefused them this privilege, they returned to Baraboo for the purpose of mustering a sufficientnumber of their friends to help
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