Dundas is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
located in the town of
Woodville,
Calumet County, Wisconsin
Calumet County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 52,442. The county seat is Chilton. The county was created in 1836 (then in the Wisconsin Territory) and organized in 1850.
Calum ...
, United States.
History
A post office called Dundas was first established in 1846. The community was supposedly named by an early settler who had returned from the island of Dundas off the east coast of Africa. The community may also have been named by the first postmaster, David H. Halsted, for William H. Dundas who was the chief clerk of the Post Office Department at the time.
Notable people
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Walter F. Truettner (1881-1967),
Michigan Senate
The Michigan Senate is the upper house of the Michigan Legislature. Along with the Michigan House of Representatives, it composes the state legislature, which has powers, roles and duties defined by Article IV of the Michigan Constitution, ado ...
member, born in Dundas
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Joseph Wolfinger, Wisconsin State Representative, businessman, and inventor, lived in Dundas.
['Wisconsin Blue Book 1897,' Biographical Sketch of Joseph Wolfinger, pg. 672]
Notes
Unincorporated communities in Calumet County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Appleton–Fox Cities metropolitan area
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