Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1961 on and old-book passages.
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 Harrison’s history is told.
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Harrison yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
The Town of Harrison is a town in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 529 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated community of Cornelia is located in the town.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 495 to 529 (+7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Harrison, cut from the printed page as they were published.
ing, 30x40, and cost $4,500. At the time of the erection bolted wheat flour was a Sunday luxury in Grant County, and this was the first mill in this part of the county to furnish it. McKee’s mill, about five miles from Platteville in the town of Harrison (for a sketch, see His¬ tory of Harrison on a subsequent page), was only a “corn -cracker” The machinery was brought from New Orleans and was up to the times, but was afterward replaced by more modern appliances. It had two runs of stones. After many years of operation Mr. Bass
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
mill-wright. But the locality was greatly in need of a saw-mill, and Mr. Rountree advised him to establish one and aided him to do so. A suitable waterpower was found on the Little Platte, about five miles southwest of Platteville, in the town of Harrison, and the mill was speedily erected and put into operation. The great demand for lumber Digitized by v^ooQie
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Harrison. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Harrison.
Nobody well known was born in Harrison itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
