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Photo: Corey Coyle · CC BY 3.0Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1952 on, and the census since 1870.
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 Hazel Green’s history is told.
Lost a third of its people between 1870 and 1890, then more than doubled.
16 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Hazel Green’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Hazel Green.
In 1825, the village was named from dense growth of American Hazelnut near the town site.
In 1876, a tornado struck Hazel Green; nine died, many were injured, and property loss was approximately $40,000 to $50,000 (equivalent to $1.21 million to $1.51 million in 2025).
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Passages that mention Hazel Green, cut from the printed page as they were published.
dences which were erected in Rood's Addition went up about this time, and Lewisburg, a town of great ambition, but slender prospects, was beginning to come into notice. This projected municipality was surveyed and platted in 1846 by Henry C. Wiltse, on the Curtis farm, a mile north of Hazel Green, and named after Lewis Curtis, who will be remembered as an arrival here in 1827. It was thought that the enterprise might, in time, either neutralize the influence and importance of Hazel Green, or become a valuable addition to that place. Lots were laid out, streets designated and named, and other improvements proposed, but they were never realized, nor were the ambitions of its founders ; the village that was to be failed to attract visitors ;
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The following diggings are in the village of Hazel Green, but not on the lands of the Hazel Green Mining Company : McBrien & Co. — This is an east-and-west sheet, connected with a quartering one averaging about an inch thick, situated on the land of Dr. McBrien, on the northwest quarter of Section 25, Town 1, Range 1 west. The range was worked in 1844, and the ore taken out to the water-level. The water having become much reduced by the Hazel Green Company’s level, work was recommenced in 1871, since which
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St. Joseph’s Church , Sinsinawa Mound. — This parish, in the town of Hazel Green, is situated at “the Mound,” four miles west erf the vil¬ lage. From 1837 until 1842 Rev. Father Samuel Mazzuchelli said mass in the houses of anumber of the settlers about the Mound. In the latter year a log church was built on the land of Kieran Murray, half a mile south of the Mound. In 1845 this building was moved to the Mound. In 1882 the present St. Joseph’s church was built threequarters of a mile east of the Mound. The pastors of the church have
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.
Born hereHenry Olerich is born here
In the archiveCleveland Mine, Hazel Green, Wis
Born hereJohn W. Cox, Jr. is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hazel Green.
1952Cuba City sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hazel Green.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Hazel Green’s page.
Retake this view · +15Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Another post office, Sinsinawa Mound, 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).
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 →
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