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History · Fountain

Fountain’s post office opened in 1854, and 20% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1983 on.

1854first post office
0on the National Register
20%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Fountain began

When was Fountain founded?

1854

The Fountain post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 592172 years
Founding year: the first Fountain post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Fountain’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 Fountain 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 Fountain’s history is told.

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The story so far

Fountain, in brief

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

Fountain is a town in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 592 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1854. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 555 to 592 (+7%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Fountain, 1854 to 1983

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1854Post officeThe Fountain post office opens
  3. 1864Post officeThe Fountain post office closes
  4. 1876Born hereH. J. Mortensen is born here
  5. 20th century
  6. 1983On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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

Fountain on the map in 1983

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fountain.

Fountain on the 1983 USGS map1983Kendall East 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 Fountain.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Fountain had its own post office from 1854 to 1864.

Fountain
1854–1864
18501940today
Gone or out of use
Pleasant Acres Nursing Homehospital
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Fountain
BrewsterEast Lemonweir LutheranFountain LutheranPleasant AcresTrinity LutheranZindorf

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.

CliftonIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOrangeIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPlymouthIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLisbonIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Fountain’s history

What year was Fountain founded?

The Fountain post office opened in 1854, 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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.