Dundas, Wisconsin

Dundas is an unincorporated community located in the town of Woodville, Calumet County, Wisconsin, United States.[1][2]

Dundas, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
Dundas
Dundas
Coordinates: 44°14′03″N 88°11′54″W
Country United States
State Wisconsin
CountyCalumet
TownWoodville
Elevation
250 m (810 ft)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)920
GNIS feature ID1564178[1]

History

A post office called Dundas was first established in 1846.[3] The community was supposedly named by an early settler who had returned from the island of Dundas off the east coast of Africa.[4] The community may also have been named by the first postmaster, David H. Halsted, for William H. Dundas who was the chief clerk of the Post Office Department at the time.[5]

Notable people
  • Joseph Wolfinger, Wisconsin State Representative, businessman, and inventor, lived in Dundas.[6]

Notes
  1. "Dundas, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. Calumet County (PDF) (Map). Wisconsin Department of Transportation. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 30, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
  3. "Calumet County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  4. Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 66.
  5. Callary, Edward. Place Names of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-299-30964-0.
  6. 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1897,' Biographical Sketch of Joseph Wolfinger, pg. 672


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