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Fort
Atkinson was a federal military post 1840-1849. The first permanent
white settlers, Hamilton Campbell &
Gottlob Krumm, arrived in Winneshiek County in 1848.
Decorah's first settlers William Painter and the John Day family arrived in 1849.
Also in 1849, Joseph Spielmann settled where Bohemian immigrants would
make Spillville prosper.
Samuel Belding and Daniel Wheeler built a hotel in Burr Oak in
1851. Frank Teabout founded Frankville in 1851.
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