Look to the road on your left to continue this timeline (to scale). The far side of the road marks when the glaciers receded and the near side marks when the land was settled by humans.
Timeline Scale: 1 inch = 7 years
The land on which Anderson Farm Park now sits has been continuously inhabited for at least 12,000 years. As the glaciers receded, people moved north hunting big game animals and fishing. The big game animals of the time would have included mammoths, mastodons, giant beavers and musk oxen.
Glaciers receded leaving in their wake wet plains and large lakes. Oregon is located in the vicinity of the Johnstown moraine, the terminal moraine from the last major glaciation.
Ho-Chunk tribal members were forced west to Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska through a series of treaties. Despite the repeated efforts of settlers and the U.S. government to expel them during the 19th century, Ho-Chunk people persisted, endured, and continue to live here in Teejop (the Four Lakes region).
The Beloit and Madison Railroad (later part of the Chicago and Northwestern) extended the line through the village, giving Oregon (then known as Rome Corners) an advantage over the outlying settlements. Oregon was an important nucleus of trade, a shipping point for livestock to the Chicago market.
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