Blue Mounds’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Blue Mounds. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusBlue Mounds is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2020 census, the village had a population of 950. The village is adjacent to the Town of Blue Mounds, and is part of the Madison metropolitan area. Blue Mounds was named by French missionaries for the blueish hue of three nearby mounds.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 968 to 899 (-7%). Half of its homes were built before 1981.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Blue Mounds yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Blue Mounds’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Blue Mounds’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewBelle Case La Follette speaking i…, 1915: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Blue Mounds
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Blue Mounds, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Belle Case La Follette speaking in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin in 1915 (1915) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.