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History · Germantown Township

28% of Germantown Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Beskow Barn. Below: maps from 1970 on.

1on the National Register
28%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Germantown Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Germantown Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Germantown Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Germantown Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Germantown Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 165 to 174 (+5%).

Timeline

Germantown Township, 1904 to 1970

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1904Post officeThe Forestville post office opens
  3. 1914Post officeThe Forestville post office closes
  4. 1917BuiltBeskow Barn is built
  5. 1970On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Germantown Township on the map, 1970 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Germantown Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Germantown Township on the 1970 USGS mapGermantown Township on the 1985 USGS map1970Still Lake SE sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Germantown Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Germantown Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
2003
Beskow Barn
Beskow Barn, built 1917
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Wisconsin Dairy Barn1
All 1 listings
Beskow BarnBuilding · listed 2003

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Forestville, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
ForestvillelocaleGermantown Country SchoolhouseschoolHyde School Number 69schoolSaint Luke’s Evangelical Lutheran Churchchurch
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Germantown Township
KlixSaint Lukes Lutheran

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Dexter Township3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLeola TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRauville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLura TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Germantown Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Germantown Township?

One place: the Beskow Barn (listed 2003).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.