Building date: 1846
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°41'00.83"N 88°18'41.40"W. Current owner of record, Wilson/Skwierawsli as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Spring Prairie and Walworth County Maps.
Prior references state an address of W202 Highway 11. A new highway 11 bypass has since been built. The address is now W202 County Trunk JS.
This cobblestone house at W202 Highway 11, Spring Prairie, Walworth county was the farm residence of Lemuel R. and Melissa (Campbell) Smith, who he married about 1842. Their three children were born here. Lemuel was born in Hamilton, N.Y., a son of Revolutionary War veteran Aaron Smith He his son, Civil War veteran Edwin Ruthven Smith, gave President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward each a drink from his canteen when they visited Fort DeRussy. Union troops there had helped repel an attack on Fort Stevens (Washington, D. C.) by Confederate troops under Jubal Early. Lemuel was one of the first four settlers to claim land in the Burlington area. The Smith farm has been identified as a station for sheltering fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. Smith has also been identified as a "conductor" who picked up a freedom seeker in Waterford and transported him to a farm near the Smith farm. Lemuel held various offices in his township and was the first chairman of the Old Settlers' Society in Walworth County. Lemuel died in 1874. Burlington Historical Society, Richard Palmer blog.
Cobblestone Buildings in Wisconsin, Walworth #31
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Peck House
- Page 219, Page 253
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¹ Photography courtesy Burlington Historical Society.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer blog. Attribution not provided.
