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Colonel Henry DodgeThe arrival of the Dodge party of miners in Iowa County on 3 October, 1827 was a tribute to the power of the lure of riches triggered by rumors that lead lay on top of the ground. From his birth in 1782 to his death in 1867, Henry Dodge was an active participant in the American Story. Beginning as an unschooled frontier youth, Dodge grew to become a sheriff, a judge, a lead mining country entrepreneur, a sheriff in Missouri and Wisconsin and a militia general in the War of 1812. His resolve and fast action brought the sad events of the Black Hawk War of 1832 to a swift conclusion. His reputation as a man of action brought him to the attention of President Andrew Jackson who commissioned him as the first commander of the U. S. Mounted Dragoons sending the Dragoons to the “Indian Territory” of the American Southwest. The president ordered Dodge to pacify the tribes and to preach the value of farming to the mostly nomadic natives. He tried; it didn’t take. (The dragoons later became the renowned First Cavalry Division.)
Returning to Wisconsin in 1835 Dodge was appointed territorial governor, a non-voting member of congress, and on the admission of Wisconsin as the thirtieth state in the Union in 1848 our first U. S. Senator. At his death in 1867, Henry Dodge had commissions signed by six U. S. Presidents and was universally respected as a man of honor. (Photo courtesy of the Wis. Historical Society)
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THE MANY FACES OF MINERAL POINT (Volume II)Pictures from the Mineral Point Historical Society’s collection. Captions with citations from the 1894 issues of the Mineral Point Tribune
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Dodgeville on a busy day, circa 1908Many of the early business districts and homes in Mineral Point and Dodgeville are now protected under historic preservation ordinances. Both communities were founded in 1827 by miners and speculators thirsting for the riches they believed were at hand as they prospected for lead. (Photo in collections of the Iowa County Historical Society)
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