Under the leadership of John Luraas, forty pioneers came to Muskego Lake from Norway in 1839, to found one of the most important settlements in Norwegian-American history. After temporary set-backs, the settlement flourished here through the . . . — — Map (db m34221) HM
This cemetery was the original resting place of community members who were instrumental in founding Waterford. Village founders Levi Barnes and Samuel Chapman dedicated this site as the village’s first public cemetery in 1843, but burials date . . . — — Map (db m259814) HM
