Johnsburg, Wisconsin

Johnsburg, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
Johnsburg, Wisconsin
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Coordinates: 43°52′38″N 88°17′23″W
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Fond du Lac
Elevation	288 m (945 ft)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Zip codes	53049, 54937
Area code	920
GNIS feature ID	1567207[1]

Johnsburg, Wisconsin is an unincorporated community in the Town of Calumet in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.[2] The community is located on County Roads Q and W, approximately 3.3 miles (5.3 km) east of Lake Winnebago, 2.75 miles (4.43 km) southeast of Pipe and 1.4 miles (2.3 km) northwest of Malone. Johnsburg is part of the Holyland region in northeastern Fond du Lac county.

Church / history

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church is a prominent building in Johnsburg. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as number 80000137.[3]

The congregation was founded by six families in 1841. When built in 1842, the church was the first in the approximately 100 miles (160 kilometers) between Milwaukee and Green Bay. Named after the church, St. Johannes Gemeinde (St. John's congregation), the community was known as Hinesburg.[4] Father Deisenrieder had a post office established and the town received its original name to honor his birthplace in Bavaria.[5] The United States Postal Service changed their methods in 1885 and the community was renamed "Johnsburg".[6]

Notable people

• Evan Vogds, football player

Images

• 
  Looking west at downtown Johnsburg
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  St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
• 
  The interior of the St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Johnsburg, Wisconsin, & it was built in the CE.1850s so the architecture is in public domain.
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  St.John the Baptist Parish R.H.P. Marker

Sources

• St. John the Baptist Congregation, Rev. Benjamin J. Blied, 1980

References

1. "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
2. "Johnsburg, Fond du Lac Co". www.wisconsinhistory.org. Archived from the original on June 11, 2011.
3. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
4. Kathryn Bartel. "Marytown, A Holyland Community: Built on Dreams, Persisting on Spirit, 1849-2003 Archived May 25, 2018, at the Wayback Machine". In Clarence B. Davis. History by the Lake: Studies in the History of Fond du Lac and the Lake Winnebago Region. Fond du Lac, Wis.: Marian College Press, 2005.
5. Blied, page 50
6. Blied, page 58