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History · Wrightstown

21% of Wrightstown’s homes were built before 1940

More historic than 48% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1954 on, and the census since 1880.

0on the National Register
21%homes built before 1940
3old photos & papers
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From Wrightstown’s archive · credits on each photo
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About Wrightstown’s history

How historic is Wrightstown?

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More historic than 48% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

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What drives Wrightstown’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Wrightstown is more historic than 48% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.

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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Wrightstown’s overall grade.
Founding eraNo founding year we can rely on, so the grade uses the other two–Homes built before 194020.9% of homes (±7.0) · typical WI town 12.1% · U.S. 8.4%B+National RegisterNo listings counted · typical WI town 3.0 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 48%
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Wisconsin towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Wisconsin town has 3.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Wrightstown’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (28% of Wisconsin towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±7.0 points).

Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Wrightstown’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 3 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Wrightstown’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wrightstown’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewDETAIL VIEW OF EAST ARCH - Wrightstown …: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Wrightstown came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Wrightstown.

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The area now known as Wrightstown lies within the ancestral homeland of the Menominee people, who inhabited the Fox River Valley for over 10,000 years. In the Treaty of Washington (1831), the Menominee ceded approximately 2.5 million acres of land, including present-day Wrightstown, to the United States government in exchange for approximately $92,000 in provisions and annuities. This cession occurred during the era of President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.

ChaptersPre-colonial historyEuropean-American settlement

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Wrightstown, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1960s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1960s3 items
DETAIL VIEW OF EAST ARCH - Wrightstown Bridge, Spanning East River, on Mallard Road1968DETAIL VIEW OF EAST ARCH - Wrightstown Bridge, Spanni…GENERAL VIEW OF BRIDGE, LOOKING SOUTH - Wrightstown Bridge, Spanning East River, on Mallard Road1968GENERAL VIEW OF BRIDGE, LOOKING SOUTH - Wrightstown B…VIEW OF DECK, LOOKING EAST - Wrightstown Bridge, Spanning East River, on Mallard Road1968VIEW OF DECK, LOOKING EAST - Wrightstown Bridge, Span…
1970s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today2 recent
WrightstownWisconsinChurch2007WrightstownWisconsinChurchWIMap-doton-Wrightstown2004WIMap-doton-Wrightstown
On the map

Wrightstown on the map, 1954 to 1992

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

Wrightstown on the 1954 USGS mapWrightstown on the 1974 USGS mapWrightstown on the 1992 USGS map1954De Pere 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 Wrightstown.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

DETAIL VIEW OF EAST ARCH - Wrightstown Bridge, Spanning East River, on Mallard Road
Retake this viewDETAIL VIEW OF EAST ARCH - Wrightstown Bridge, Spanning East River, on Mallard Road, 1968

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Wrightstown’s page.

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People over time

Wrightstown, census by census

05001,0001,5002,0002,5003,0003,500188019001920194019601980200020203,179

Grew from 450 people in 1880 to 3,179 in 2020, 7 times over.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Wrightstown’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Sniderville
Gone or out of use
Dyers SchoolschoolGreenleaf QuarrymineJefferson SchoolschoolMichaelson Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Wrightstown
FairviewSaint Johns

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.

GreenleafIts storyC+HollandIts storyC+RocklandIts storyCLawrence1 historic placeCMorrisonIts storyBGlenmoreIts storyB−BuchananIts storyC−

Questions about Wrightstown’s history

How does Wrightstown rank for history?

Wrightstown is more historic than 48% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

How old are the homes in Wrightstown?

21% of Wrightstown’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.0 points), against a typical 12% for a Wisconsin town; the median home was built in 1991.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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).

From Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikidata (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) 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.