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History · Leroy

Leroy’s post office opened in 1848, and 49% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the St. Andrew's Church. Below: maps from 1955 on.

1848first post office

1on the National Register

49%homes built before 1940

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How Leroy began

When was Leroy founded?

1848

The Leroy post office opened in 1848, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Farmersville (1848), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 956178 years

Founding year: the first Leroy post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Leroy’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 Leroy are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Leroy’s homes were built before 1942.Deep rootsA post office since 1848: 178 years of Leroy.

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Decades since 1900 with photos

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The story so far

Leroy, in brief

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

LeRoy is a town in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 956 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated communities of Farmersville and LeRoy are located in the town.

Its first post office opened in 1848. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,002 to 956 (-5%).

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

Timeline

Leroy, 1848 to 1955

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

19th century
1848Post officeThe Farmersville post office opens
1848Post officeThe Leroy post office opens
1882Post officeThe Farmersville post office closes
20th century
1901BuiltSt. Andrew's Church is built
1906Post officeThe Leroy post office closes
1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey

By decade

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

Leroy on the map, 1955 to 1981

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

1955Waupun sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Leroy.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Leroy

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed

National Historic Landmarks

none yet

historic buildings protected

each building in a district counts

first listed

2010

St. Andrew's Church

Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Gothic1

St. Andrew's ChurchGothic · Built 1901

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Leroy

Nobody well known was born in Leroy itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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King Camp GilletteAmerican entrepreneur · b. 1855

Travis DienerAmerican basketball player · b. 1982

Brigid BazlenAmerican actress · b. 1944

Delia AkeleyAmerican explorer · b. 1869

Ronald LangackerProfessor emeritus in the field of linguistics … · b. 1942

Scott McCallumWisconsin businessman and politician · b. 1950

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Leroy had its own post office from 1848 to 1906. Another post office, Farmersville, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Farmersville

1848–1882

Leroy

1848–1906

18401930today

Hamlets and corners on the map

Farmersville

Gone or out of use

Mittelstadt Landing Stripairport

3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Leroy

Mount PleasantSaint PaulTidyman

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.

LomiraIts storyA⁻OakfieldIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town KekoskeeIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town ChesterIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Leroy’s history

What year was Leroy founded?

The Leroy post office opened in 1848, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Leroy?

One place: the St. Andrew's Church (listed 2010).

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Sources

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 (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.

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