Heritage House, Triangle Park, Oostburg, Sheboygan County

The Dutch settlement of Oostburg, founded in the 1840s and named for a town in the Netherlands, was once located two miles to the southeast. In 1873, to attract the railroad to this location, local businessman Pieter Daane constructed and donat­ed a depot to the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad Company. Oostburg moved here and in just three years became a thriving railroad town with a mill, grain elevator, lumber yard, post office, church, hotel, telegraph office, and various shops, including two general stores.

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[Source: McBride, Sarah Davis. History Just Ahead (Madison:WHS, 1999).]