Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1983 on and old-book passages.
The Wellington post office opened in 1858, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Hoffman's Corners (1857) and Albanville (1862), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Wellington’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Wellington yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Wellington is a town in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 666 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1858. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 621 to 666 (+7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Wellington had its own post office from 1858 to 1865. 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).
Passages that mention Wellington, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Campbell, in the town of Wellington, in Monroe county, attending the district school until the age of fourteen, when he returned to Oconomowoc, where he was employed at farm work. At the age of eighteen, August 26, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, First Wisconsin Cavalry, and served three years in the army, and was discharged in 1864. His regiment operated largely in ]Missouri and Arkansas, and was afterwards sent to Tennessee, where it participated in several sharp skirmishes and engagements, at
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congregations at Wilton and in the town of Wellington, in 1890, and was located at Wilton. He attended these congregations for three years and afterwards the Rev. Koehler for two years. The congregation consecrated their own church on the 11th of December, 1887, and built a parsonage in 1894. In January, 1905, the Rev. John Hering took charge at Wilton and town of Wellington, attending both eongregations until the first of August, 1908, as from that date he took charge of Wilton alone, the congregation
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bought an eighty-acre farm on what is known as the Ridge. It was in 1874 that he bought 100 acres of land in section seven, where he now lives, and later bought a forty-acre tract in the town of Wellington. To the home farm he has added many valuable and lasting improvements, including a fine residence, commodious barns, two silos, granary, and other outbuildings.
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congregations at AVilton and in the town of Wellington, in 1890, and was located at AVilton. He attended these congregations for three years and afterwards the Rev. Koehler for two years. The congregation consecrated their own church on the 11th of December, 1887, and built a parsonage in 1894. In January, 1905, the Rev. John Hering took charge at Wilton and town of AVellington, attending both congregations until the first of August, 1908, as from that date he took charge of Wilton alone, the congregation
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wellington.
1983Kendall West 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 Wellington.
Nobody well known was born in Wellington itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Wellington post office opened in 1858, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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.