ARMENIA, JUNEAU CO., WI

Organized:  1858
First Settlers: Michael Banfield, Frank Cullen on Cranberry Creek in 1851
Origin of Name: Believed to be named by a group of immigrants from Armenia who lived across the Wisconsin River.
First Town Chairman:  Joseph Hewitt
First School: Armenia Village in 1856
First Recorded Town Tax:   $281.86 in 1865

• Armenia is the site of an estimated 1,500 Indian mounds of varying size and shapes.
• Armenia was named in 1856 when Juneau was still part of Adams County.
• Armenia was always one of the least settled parts of Juneau Co.
  

source: Juneau County, The First Hundred Years, published 1988

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