From "The Weyauwegan" Newspaper – March 7, 1856
Transcribed and submitted to the Waupaca County Website by Paula Vaughan March 2003

The following paragraphs we clip from the traveling correspondence of the Milwaukee Sentinel.

Ogdensburgh, 35 miles from Appleton, 8 miles from Waupaca and 7 miles west of Mieklejohn’s on the South branch of the Little Wolf is another village, 1½ years old, which Western enterprise is starting into existence before thousands of our good, dreamy, busy city folks every heard of such a place. The village is already platted, and contains some 10 or 12 industrious families. C. S. Ogden, from whom it derives its name, has just erected a Gristmill for 2 run of stone, which will be ready for business early in the season, and is an ornament to the place. A Post office has recently been established there, and Mr. N. Livermore appointed Post Master.

In addition to the Grist Mill, the village contains a Store, A Saw Mill, a Shoe Shop and a Blacksmith Shop, it is surrounded on all sides by a rich farming country, as an evidence of which I was presented by Mr. J. C. Williams, occupying a prairie farm a short distance from the site of the town, with several ears of corn, the product, of ten acres averaging a yield of over fifty bushels to the acre, and much of it standing in the field before harvesting twelve to fourteen feet high. The same gentleman also, raised 400 bushels of potatoes, to the acre.

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