1893 Map of Brodhead

About this map

The Sugar River and its major tributary, the Little Sugar River, anchor this late nineteenth-century portrait of Green and Rock Counties. The region is defined by a dense network of early settlements and the critical infrastructure of the Chicago Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad, which intersects at the growing hub of Brodhead. The map reveals the relationship between water and early commerce, with the river meandering through Albany and past the wetland of Taylor Marsh.