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www.stoughtonhistoricalsociety.org  The Society owns and operates The Stoughton Historical Museum, housed in a solid brick and stone structure built in 1858 to serve the Yankee settlers as a Universalist church. The church was built in simple Greek Revival style using "Cream City" brick brought to Stoughton from Milwaukee by teams of oxen. Designed by Madison architect, Stephan Vaughan Shipman, it was the first building in Stoughton to be placed on the National Registry of Historic Places.
The Universalist Church donated the building to be used for a "museum and educational purposes". In 1960, the Historical Society established the museum, as a permanent place to preserve the heritage of the early pioneers and their descendents.
The museum is open Sundays from Syttende Mai weekend in mid-May through Labor Day weekend.
The Society maintains additional exhibits in the 1913 railroad Depot also home to the Stoughton Chamber of Commerce. The Depot exhibits focus on railroad artifacts, 19th century farm tools and implements related to tobacco farming and the Stoughton wagon industry including a wagon with original paint.
The Society also owns the Luke Stoughton pioneer home thought to be the first house of the city founder. The Society is currently renovating the structure thanks to the generous support of the Stoughton Community.
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by Robert Rivers - Janesville
Remaking tractors, we are made ourselves.
The centuries’ past work
of land, thought, and metal
through the hands of the gifted mechanic
is nutted and bolted
with the weaving of our souls.
That the voice of past harvest not dim,
but that the life and humanity
of the ancestral farmer continue
through steel, recollection, and spirit. |
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