This Saturday, March 1st!

Just a reminder: Saturday, March 1, 2025, from 9:00 am to Noon, the Jonathan Clark House Museum, at the corner of Bonniwell and Cedarburg Roads in Mequon, will host a special museum open house featuring an up-close exploration of our newly-acquired 1860 Plat Map of Mequon.

Mequon’s first quarter-century of settlement

In January, 1836, when the U.S. government surveyed the first official map of Mequon, there was not one white settler to be found in the whole town. By 1860 there was barely a quarter-section of government land left unsettled, including the Jonathan Clark farm (shaded green on the poster, above).

Were your—or your neighbors’—ancestors among Mequon’s first farmers? Come see our new, annotated, Plat Map of Mequon circa 1860, and discover where Mequon’s early settlers lived and learn details of how and what they farmed. Bring your favorite magnifier or use one of ours.

Event details…

This is a free family-friendly event for ages 10 and up. Donations will be accepted.

And if you can’t attend on this date? Contact JCH Preservation Manager Fred Derr to arrange a personal map exploration session at a date and time convenient to your schedule: www.jonathanclarkhouse.org • jchmuseum@gmail.com • tel. 262-618-2051

The 1860 Plat Map Exploration and Open House is sponsored by the Friends of Jonathan Clark House and underwritten by Tammie Strause of the Pink Llama Gallery in downtown Cedarburg.