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History · Cornucopia

Cornucopia’s post office opened in 1902, and 19% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1964 on.

1902first post office
0on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
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How Cornucopia began

When was Cornucopia founded?

1902

The Cornucopia post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 103124 years
Founding year: the first Cornucopia post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Cornucopia’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 Cornucopia are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Cornucopia came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Cornucopia.

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The Ojibwe used the Siskiwit Bay area as a temporary camp and a stopover on the way to La Pointe. "Siskiwit" comes from an Ojibwe word for a subspecies of Lake trout known in English as a "fat trout". A historical marker at the Cornucopia beach tells of the Tragedy of the Siskiwit, an Ojibwe battle on that site with a band of Meskwaki that lead to several deaths and the kidnapping of a chief's son.

The first white settlers in the Siskiwit Bay area were loggers who came at the close of the nineteenth century. Remnants of this period include abandoned railroad pilings in Siskiwit Lake and a legend of stolen gold on Gold Hill at the southeastern edge of the community.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Cornucopia, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Cornucopia Wisconsin Sign WIS132012Cornucopia Wisconsin Sign WIS13Cornucopia Wisconsin Post Office2012Cornucopia Wisconsin Post OfficeCornucopia Wisconsin Museum2012Cornucopia Wisconsin MuseumCornucopiaWI-020-0505072007CornucopiaWI-020-050507CornucopiaWI-018-0505072007CornucopiaWI-018-050507Boat in2004Boat in
On the map

Cornucopia on the map, 1964 to 2005

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

Cornucopia on the 1964 USGS mapCornucopia on the 2005 USGS map1964Cornucopia 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 Cornucopia.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

BellIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Cornucopia’s history

What year was Cornucopia founded?

The Cornucopia post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia and U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.