Memoirs of Waukesha County. From the earliest historical times to the present with chapters on various subjects, including each of the different towns, and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in the county, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information.

              324 MEMOIRS  OF WAUKESHA  COUNTY
of the mill site that year and built another mill opposite the Draper House, that was long known as the "Red Grist Mill," and was used until 1855 when it was replaced by a brick structure.
Mr. Rockwell was one of the most active and enterprising citizens of Oconomowoc in the early days. He had the village surveyed and made the first plat of it. He was instrumental in the construction of the grade road from Oconomowoc to Iron Ridge and Mayville, Dodge county, and in getting the railroad, now a division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul to pass through the village, and was the first president of the company that built the road from Milwaukee to Oconomowoc.
The first wagon road between Milwaukee and Watertown was sur¬ veyed in 1838, by Garrett Vliet of Milwaukee. The road commissioners were A. A. Bird, of Madison and John Richards of Watertown. This road passed just north of the present city of Oconomowoc. Adonijah Roe built the first blacksmith shop in 1840, and George Brooks built the first hotel the same year. The first schoolhouse, a log structure, wasbuHt in 1841 and the first frame.schoolhouse, built by subscription, was built on the north side of the river in district No. 10. Brick-mak¬ ing was among the very early industries, John Ferry having a brick¬ yard in 1841, on the site afterward occupied by the Zion church.
Other mills were built, one by Hans Gasman in* section 2, on the north side of the Ashippun river, in the spring of 1844. It was a saw¬ mill and run for ten years when it was moved farther down the river. Okauchee mill, a small saw-mill on the outlet of Okauchee lake, was built by Orson Reed in 1839-40, and was run until 1877, when a new one was constructed. No settlement grew up around either of these places.
Beside the city of Oconomowoc,—which is treated by itself,—there have been but three villages in the town. Mapleton, formerly a post station, is a little hamlet in section 11, just south of Gasman's milf. Monterey, four miles north of Oconomowoc, was formerly a post station, and is now a village of about one hundred inhabitants. It has a good water-power and a mill was built there in 1844 by Sanford Cotton, which was operated untH 1856, when a new mill was erected. It received its Spanish name during the Mexican war, when, on ac¬ count of the events then transpiring, the name had become a familiar . one. Okauchee, a station on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, is a small hamlet of less than a hundred people which has grown up in more recent years, and its principal use is as a post-office and station for the cottagers and other visitors who spend their summers on the shores of Okauchee lake.
The dairying interests of the town are large, there being four cream¬ eries and three cheese factories within its borders. Fruit and veg¬ etables are extensively grown. Among the natural assets of the country are sand and gravel, clay banks and peat beds, all of which will probably be much more largely utilized in the future than at present.
The population, exclusive of the city of Oconomowoc is 1,403, with