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Merrimac Ferry & Sign. Inscription:
Merrimac’s first permanent settler, Chester Mattson, obtained a territorial charter in 1848 to provide ferry service across the Wisconsin River. The State Legislature of 1851 authorized a road, subsequently to become State Trunk Highway 113, to con­nect settlements at Madison and Baraboo via Matt’s Ferry. Today, the Merrimac Ferry is the lone survivor of upwards of 500 ferries chartered by territorial and state legislatures before the turn of the century.

The fee charged by early ferrymen for taking a team and wagon across the river was well earned, for their muscles pro­vided a good share of the ferry’s power until a gasoline engine was added around 1900.

The ferry changed hands several times before Matt’s Ferry Road was added to the state system in 1923 and Columbia and Sauk Counties took over its opera­tion. The name Colsac is a phonetic derivation of the two county names. The State of Wisconsin assumed responsibility for the maintenance and operation of the ferry in 1933, after which the service was provided without charge.

Erected 1973 by the Wisconsin Historical Society. (Marker Number 187.)
Date Taken on 31 May 2014
Source https://web.archive.org/web/20161028110634/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/107676196
Author Corey Coyle
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Lake Wisconsin, 2014, building, Columbia County, lake, Lake Wisconsin, Merrimac, Sauk County, Spring, United States, water
Camera location43° 21′ 56.04″ N, 89° 37′ 08.54″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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