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[8] [9] As the population of the Blue Mounds Township grew, so too did the need for a new post office. In 1861, the first post office in Mount Horeb was established in the home of English immigrant and Methodist Episcopal lay minister George Wright. As the new postmaster, Wright selected the name Mount Horeb for the settlement.
It was the first business in the area, and served the rural community with food, hardware, clothes, and a post office for years. But in 1881 the railroad built a depot southwest of the Corners. In response, the Burrows store was moved, along with most of the other businesses, closer to the depot, to the site now occupied by the Hoff store.
Mt. Horeb Opera Block: February 23, 1989 : 109-117 E. Main St. Mount Horeb: 3-story Queen Anne-styled opera house built in 1895, which hosted plays, dances, theatrical troupes, political rallies, graduations, and movies. 68: Mount Horeb Public School
Onon bought forty acres on a ridge with good access to the Military Ridge Road - not the best farmland, but a good site for a trading center and town. He built a store and log cabin there, and set up a private service to bring the mail in seven miles from the post office at Blue Mounds once a week. He prospered, and married Betsy Nelson in 1854.
Post offices were consolidated between 1900 and 1904 and rural route deliveries out of Blanchardville, New Glarus, Daleyville, and Mount Horeb then began to serve most York residents. [ 10 ] The main industry for all the settlers was wheat farming until chinch bugs, overused soil, and lowered prices caused its profitability to drop ...
State Trunk Highway 92 (often called Highway 92, STH-92 or WIS 92) is a 30.68 miles (49.37 km) state highway in Green and Dane counties in the south-central area of the US state of Wisconsin that runs north–south from Mount Horeb to near Brooklyn. [2]
Daleyville once had two blacksmith shops, a wagon shop, a post office, a shoe shop, a garage and general store, a physician and a surgeon, a telephone exchange, and a school. The Onon B. and Betsy Dahle House still stands just off Highway 78 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The cave is located 20 miles west of Madison, off U.S. Highways 18/151 in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin. Since its opening in 1940, the cave has hosted millions of tourists. Since its opening in 1940, the cave has hosted millions of tourists.