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Farmers in the small towns along the border between Sauk more effectively brought their produce and livestock to market. and Richland Counties banded together to build By road, a traveler had to cover 125 miles to get from Ironton to E the county seat of Baraboo, but a rail line shortened the journey a railroad that would connect them with the outside to only twenty-three miles. world. Little did they know that it would be plagued by In the early 1870s, the Chicago and Northwestern (C&NW] bankruptcies, accidents, and natural disasters. Despite Railroad built a line through Sauk County. Crossing the near-constant challenges over its thirty-two-year exis­ Wisconsin River at Merrimac, the line cut through the northern tence, the hard-luck railroad—known at different times townships of the county, passing through Baraboo, Rock as the Lone Rock and La Valle, the Cazenovia and Springs, North Freedom, Reedsburg, and La Valle. Each town Sauk City, and finally the Cazenovia and Southern blessed with a depot thrived. Baraboo in particular flourished, becoming a division headquarters for the railroad, complete Railroad—became the pride of the region, celebrated with engine repair shops as well as one ofthe largest C&NW for its endurance and survival. depots in the state. The railroad enabled other developments Railroads were essential to life in the early twentieth for the city as well, including a large woolen mill and the ever­ century. Local businesses could bring in goods from the outside growing winter quarters of the mighty Ringling Bros. Circus. 4 WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISFORY the Cazenovia and Southern Railroad BY PETER SHRAKE The villages along the border between Rchland and Sauk A coach car sits idle at the Cazenovia Depot, ca. 1929. The depot Counties had been talking about building a railroad since the was the terminus for a six-mile rail line that provided freight and early 1880s. Several efforts were made to convince one ofthe two passenger service to the communities of Cazenovia and Ironton. nearby established lines—the C&NW and the Minneapolis and St. Paul, which ran through Spring Green—to run a short branch a school with about one hundred students, and a grist mill. line through the region. When both efforts failed, talk shifted to The mill also generated electricity, giving Cazenovia bragging building an independent line. Leaders from Lone Rock and Plain rights about its electric lights.2 Yet it was still a distinctly rural contemplated a route extending south from La Valle. Business community. One newspaper reporter described the area as "a and community leaders at Cazenovia considered a similar line rich valley dotted with fine farms, creameries, cheese factories, between La Valle and their village. Apparently, both groups were small villages, woods and meadows and with here and there unaware ofthe existence ofthe other.1 signs of iron," also noting that "a lack of transportation has Cazenovia was a booming community of about four retarded the growth and development of this region."3 hundred residents, and a railroad could only take it to new levels. The reference to iron harkened back to the early days of The village had two general stores, a hardware store, a furniture the region. Four miles north of Cazenovia lay Ironton which, store, a drug store, a shoe store, its own bank, a creamery, a post as its name implies, was founded as a mining and smelting office, saloons, two hotels, two churches, several secret societies. community. But by the turn ofthe century, the roller mills had SPRING 2018 5 fallen silent. The combination of low prices for iron coupled with the rise in cost of timber and coal used in the mining and smelting process put the mines and foundry out of business. 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