Bank of Cashton

On March 15, 1899, the Bank of Cashton opened for business on Broadway Street. The history of Cashton dates back to 1879 when the railroad was built. From that day forward, people began moving in and putting up buildings and opening various business establishments. There were grocery, mercantile, hardware, drug, and furniture stores, a shoe shop, butcher shop, and tailor shop, two hotels, a livery business, and a sawmill. It was the Roessler and Senz sawmill which housed the Village's first electric generating plant. There were individuals who carried on the business of buying ties, lumber, stock, and grain. Business flourished, but there was not a bank to service the community. In order that businesses might have some convenient way of paying wholesalers for their merchandise, the Nelson and Campbell store arranged to handle drafts for them. A good sized safe was installed in their store and it was there that the businesses bought drafts with which they paid their bills...