Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Cadiz Township Joint District No. 2 School. Below: old-book passages.
The Browntown post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Browntown’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Browntown yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Browntown is a village in Green County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 245 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1881. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 280 to 245 (-13%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Browntown, cut from the printed page as they were published.
and settled in the town of Clarno. Not until 1854 did he become a resident of the town of Cadiz, although, as stated, he owned an interest in Browntown in 1846. The first store at what since become Browntown was opened by Henson Irion, in 1856. He kept a general stock of goods and continued in business until 1859, when he closed out and ac-
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There are three grist mills in the town of Cadiz. Those at the villages of Browntown and Martin are mentioned elsewhere. The third is located on Honey creek, on section 34. It was erected in 1868 and 18(39, by D.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Browntown itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Browntown post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Cadiz Township Joint District No. 2 School (listed 1996).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
