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►lONTELLO HIGH SCHOOL -1054 I his ... is o town To Montello, our town, to which we come each day by bus and car and on foot to our school on the hill of granite — to our town we dedicate this book.
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I)r. R. . Inman 11 a U Las Islwna Monldlo. llir seal of justice of Marquette County, is located on the Wisconsin Central Line, on f oth sides of Montello River or Creek, which furnishes good waterpower, and at the foot of Buffalo Lake, a beautiful stretch of water extending nine miles west from the illage and affording the town one of the most delightful locations in central Wisconsin. Montello has an extensive brick yard, a planing mill and sash and door factory, two large lumber yards. one grist mill and one feed mill, an immense granite quarry where stone for monuments, building purposes, paving, and macadam is quarried in great quantities, four dry goods and general stores, two wagon and carriage shops, blacksmith shops, tailor and shoes shops, bakery, meat market, and a large list in various lines of business and trade. That was our town in 1890. as described in an old historical volume. Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake’. Marquette, and Waushara C ounties. There is more to its colorful past than just this picture, however. Long before the first white man visited what is now Montello (even before the coming of the Winne- bago and Sauk Indian tribes), our region was inhab- ited by a race of men whose only record lies recorded in the hundreds of mounds they built, many of them still to be seen close to town along the shores of Buffalo Lake. Later, our little city was the site of an Indian village, not too far from the famous |M rtage between the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers and the spot also where Father Marquette did much missionary work. One of its early names. Mill River, was probably derived from the juxtaposition of the high granite outcropping the river at this point. At any rate, when our first white settlers. Jason Daniels and the Dartt brothers located permanently here in June of 1849. Jesse Dartt got his claim registered first, and it in- cluded most of what is now our present city. He also bec ame Montello s first postmaster in 1850. There was a Methodist church here in 1848, with services conducted by Isaac Smith, in addition to the work of the Cathol ic missionaries who came in about the same time. It was at this time also that the name Montello came into being when the settlers got to- gether and voted in Riley Dartt's suggestion for Montello. which he -reported was of Greek origin and meant mountain or hill ’ and water. Rec ords tell us the first dam. with a 14-foot drop was built then on the Montello River and also a pole bridge across this river where the present new bridge on the bank comer stands. Business places began to be erected, and the first big general store was operated by Phillips and Giddings, while our town's first real hotel was run by E. K. Smith, who was succeeded S, V v yys $Jssv £ . • Our Pi V A V 0 • 6. v '4 ■O' -1 ■fy a (i '4 'A S 4 . V r v. 'fj Or ». a r % ✓ ‘S’. 'a 'V ft Tt, V
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