in Waupun or Stokely Foods in Brandon, Wisconsin.
There were about 200 POWs at the Waupun camp who were assigned to work either for Canned Foods Inc.
The prisoners were brought to Wisconsin to relieve deficits of manpower in the area factories and farms. Despite public opposition, the camp was constructed next to the canning factory, south of Doty Street. In 1945 Waupun, was selected for the site of a German POW camp. The 1875 Wisconsin census showed the village of Waupun to have a population of 1,867. The territorial census in 1847 showed the Town of Waupun to have a population of 956. A new library building was built in 1968 and is the current Waupun Public Library. The Waupun Carnegie Library, now Waupun Heritage Museum, was built in 1904 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie.
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In 1900, through the fundraising efforts of the Waupun Women's Club, it became a free public library. When the city took ownership, it was soon moved to a side room in the Whiting Theater, which became the Davison Theater while still housing the library. In 1895, the city took ownership of the library, appointing a new library board which included Edwin Hillyer and Lucius D. Hillyer ran the library out of his insurance office for 37 years without pay. The Waupun Library Association was established in 1858 through the efforts of William Euen and Edwin Hillyer. Paul and Pacific Railroad, known as "The Milwaukee Road", which served Waupun until 1980, when the line was sold to the state of Wisconsin and became the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad. This company eventually became the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. The Milwaukee & Horicon Railroad reached Waupun in 1856. The main building, constructed in 1854, is still in use. In 1851, the city was chosen for the State Penitentiary, owing to the abundance of limestone for construction. Ackerman was elected as the first city mayor. Because of the steady growth of the village, a city charter was granted on March 15, 1878. When the village charter was ratified 15 years later, 323 votes were cast in the first election. The first town election took place in 1842 at the Wilcox home eleven votes were cast. An adjacent town with the same name was changed along with the village. Waupun comes from the Ojibwe word "Waubun" which means "the east," "the morning," "the twilight of dawn" and "dawn of day." Waupun was originally supposed to be named "Waubun" but the state of Wisconsin made a spelling error, and Waupun never bothered to change it. Leaving Ackerman and Walker to finish, Wilcox returned to Green Bay to bring his family to their new home. They quickly nailed together a shanty to four bur oaks and began building a suitable cabin for the Wilcox homestead. Ackerman and Hiram Walker, who were interested in the powerful river and fertile land. In February 1839 he returned to the plot he laid out accompanied by two men, John N. Wilcox chose the land on recommendation of John Bannister, the first surveyor of Fond du Lac County, who reported to the government office in Green Bay that "the Rock River Valley was the most beautiful and fertile he had ever seen." Wilcox surveyed the land himself in late fall of 1838, returning to Green Bay for the winter. Waupun was founded in 1839 by Seymour Wilcox, the first settler along the Rock River in what was then deciduous forested land.
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