Announcements
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 EAGLE LAKE DANCE
EAGLE INN ON THE LAKE 3101 EAGLE RD
KANSASVILLE
FRIDAY JULY 17 7-11 P.M.
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TOWN OF DOVER - SAT. JULY 4TH - DUMP CLOSED
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Used Tire Charge as of 6/20/09 only 8 passenger tires per dump permit will be allowed on clean-up days.
A charge of $4/per tire over 8 will be imposed.
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Pancake breakfast kansasville Fire Dept. Sunday 6/12 7am -12pm
23730 Durand Avenue
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Clean - Up Day
SAT. JUNE 20, 2009
8am-1pm
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Siren Test - 1st Saturday Each Month @ 4:00 P.M.
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History
Town of Dover: Created as a separate town in the late 1840’s, Dover in 1850 had
a population of 838. Most of the 455 Europeans among them were from the British
Isles, including 270 English and 120 Irish.
Various types of land characterized the area when the first settlers arrived.
Some of it was prairie, some woodland and in the center around Eagle Lake some
swampy lowland. Most of the town’s land became productive when farmed. The
initial pioneers made their claims in 1836 and by 1845 farmers had bought most
of the land in the Town.
Dover’s first settler may have been Captain John Todd Trowbridge, a Yankee whose
career before becoming a frontier farmer had been mostly in shipping. In 1836
he, his wife Mary and two of their sons, Stewart and Henry, moved to the
wilderness of Racine County. They claimed farmland in what would become the
Town of Dover and built a two story log house that became a landmark in the
area. From their new farm home, the Trowbridge family watched the sad westward
procession of the Potawatomi Indians, whose children were the Yankee boys'
early playmates. Captain Trowbridge became a leader in the Town, serving as
Justice of the Peace, Postmaster and a member of the Territorial House of
Representatives in 1843 and 1844.
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