VILLAGE OF WAUCOMA

The Village of Waucoma established in 1846 by Dr. John Porter, who purchased land next to Cooksville from his Massachusetts friend Senator Daniel Webster.Wacoma was laid out around a public square. Soon Greek Revival and Gothic Revival style houses, some of locally fired brick, were built by Yankee settlers, along blacksmith shops, general stores, a hotel, a door and sash factory, a schoolhouse and two churches Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, Cooksville is known as a "wee bit of New England in Wisconsin."
ERECTED 1996

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Village of Cooksville