Downtown Beaver Dam Traditional Cache
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Beaver Dam is a city in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States, along Beaver Dam Lake and the Beaver Dam River. The population was 16,243 at the 2010 census, making it the second largest city in Dodge County, and the largest city fully located within the county. It is the principal city of the Beaver Dam Micropolitan Statistical area. The city is located within the Town of Beaver Dam.
Beaver Dam was first settled by Thomas Mackie and Joseph Goetschius in 1841, and was home to almost 100 people by 1843. Beaver Dam was incorporated as a city on March 18, 1856. Also in 1856, the Milwaukee Railroad reached the area, encouraging further growth. The city was named for an old beaver dam located in a stream flowing into Beaver Dam River. The area was also known as Okwaanim, Chippewa for beaver dam. Beaver Dam hosted a WWII POW camp called Camp Beaver Dam in the summer of 1944. The POW camp held 300 German prisoners of war in a tent city encampment where the Wayland Academy field house now stands. Beaver Dam is also home to the Williams Free Library, the first public library in the United States to have open stacks.
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