Dane County history

Early History of Kenosha (as published in Annual Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1857), by Michael Frank (page images at wisconsinhistory.org)

Pub. by order of the Club. (Milwaukee, Starr & son, book and job printers, 1870), by Andrew G. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

A history of Madison, the capital of Wisconsin; including the Four Lake country; (Madison, Wis. [Atwood & Culver, printers], 1874), by Daniel Steele Durrie (page images at HathiTrust)

1876 (page images at MOA)

History of Green County, Wisconsin (Milwaukee: Burdick and Armitage, 1877), by Helen M. Bingham (page images at Wisconsin)

Prepared and arranged by A.J. Reid. (Appleton, Wis., Post Publishing Co., Printers, 1879), by Alexander J. Reid (page images at HathiTrust)

History of Green County, Wisconsin. (Springfield, Ill., Union publishing company, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)

The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin: A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1891), by Frederick Jackson Turner Gutenberg text multiple formats at archive.org page images at HathiTrust

The Columbian biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of the representative men of the United States. (Chicago, The Lewis publishing company, 1895), by David Inman Nelke (page images at HathiTrust)

Kenosha Illustrated: Historical, Descriptive and Biographical (1897) (page images at Wisconsin)

In 1902, he entered into practice with John T. W. Jennings to form the Jennings & Kronenberg firm.

That partnership lasted until 1907, when Kronenberg struck out on his own.

Organization, boundaries and names of Wisconsin counties, by Louise Phelps Kellogg. (Madison, The Society, 1910), by Louise Phelps Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)

Book of words; a pageant of the old Northwest, by Thomas Wood Stevens, presented by the State normal school, Milwaukee, June 15 and 16, 1911. ([Milwaukee, Press of I.S. Bletcher & co., c1911]), by Thomas Wood Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

Co-operation between the State historical society and local societies, ([Menasha, Wis., 1920]), by Joseph Schafer (page images at HathiTrust)

Men of Progress: Wisconsin, ed. by Andrew J. Aikens and Lewis A. Proctor (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov) Wisconsin: Its History and Its People, 1634-1924 (4 volumes; Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub.

The Dane County Historical Society was founded in 1961 to preserve and promote Dane County’s History.

Since 1963, DCHS has been sponsoring historical markers countywide.

1968 newspaper article about the formation of the Dane County Records Center.

So, in 1979, in an attempt to save the neighborhood, the neighbors founded Common Wealth Development.

Common Wealth’s first commercial development was the 1982 renovation of the old Baumann Paint store at 409 S. Few Street.

In 1985, the Willy Street Co-op expanded at its old location on the corner of Willy St and Few St and, once again, Common Wealth provided business planning for the expansion.

Development of its first incubator, Madison Enterprise Center (MEC), in one of the old Gisholt Machine Co. buildings on Baldwin St in 1986 made Common Wealth a Wisconsin pioneer in business incubation.

By far the most important effort, and the greatest success in community development, has been the Youth-Business Mentoring Program established in 1991.

Another very important housing success has been the Lease-Purchase program, which started in 1998 with one family and has grown since.

In 2002, Common Wealth began work on developing a sixty-unit, three-story building at the corner of Main and Thornton Streets on the Yahara River.