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Pleasant Ridge company history timeline

1803

In 1803, when the road was extended from Sharpsburg (Norwood) to Montgomery, it became known as the Montgomery Turnpike.

1809

The first permanent settlers came in 1809.

1848

In 1848 the Shepard’s enslaver, Sarah Edmonds, of Fauquier County, Virginia, died and freed them in her will.

1850

In 1850 Charles Shepard, a formerly enslaved man from Virginia, and his family moved to rural southwestern Wisconsin near present-day Beetown in Grant County.

1861

They settled into the area and eventually established a community of African American farmers called Pleasant Ridge in the years before the Civil War, which began in 1861.

When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Pleasant Ridge contributed its share of soldiers.

1873

In 1873 Pleasant Ridge residents built one of the first integrated schools in the nation.

1884

Residents also built the United Brethren Church in 1884.

1906

In 1906 the women of the community formed the Autumn Leaf Society.

2013

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2016

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