LYNDON TOWNSHIP

Organized:  1857
First Settler:  Charles Clement in 1850
Origin of Name:  An altered spelling of Lindon, Vermont, home of a pioneer named James Cope.
First School:  St. Mary's Catholic Parochial School, 1877
First School Teachers:  Sisters Saraphine, Angeline and Clementia
First Post Office:  Kildare, 1856
First Postmaster:  John Dixon
First Recorded Town Tax:  $470.13, 1865
First Town Chairman:  C. J. Leach

• Lyndon was formed as part of an arrangement to maintain a balance on the County Board between Supervisors who wanted the County seat at New Lisbon and those who preferred Mauston.  Lyndon was formed out of southern Kildare, and Kildare was regarded with part of the short-lived Town of Waucedah.   Waucedah itself was dissolved and its supervisor, a New lisbon backer, lost his seat.  A dead-locked County board put the County seat issue to voters and Mauston ultimately won.
• Although the exact site is not known, Lyndon is probably the place where the west end of the first bridge over the Wisconsin River touched ground in 1849.
• Lyndon was the site of the first American settlement in Juneau when R. V. Allen, Amasa Wilson and C. B. Smith set up a logging camp at the Bid Eddy in 1838. Allen remained in Juneau all his life and piloted log rafts through the Dells.
• Louis Dupless was also an early settler of  Lyndon.  He and his wife, Elizabeth, settled on the bluff that later bore his name in 1847.  Their son, Charles, born that year, was possibly the first white child in what became Juneau County.  Dupless became a river boat pilot at the Dells and joined the Army in the Civil War.  After the war, he became a prominent political leader in the County.

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