{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Indianford, Wisconsin |settlement_type = [[Unincorporated area|Unincorporated community]] |nickname = |motto =

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<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = [[Area code 608|608]] |blank_name = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID |blank_info = 1581155<ref name="gnis"/> |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Indianford''' (also '''Fosters Ferry''', '''Fulton Center''', '''Indian Ford''', or '''Morses Landing''') is an [[Unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated community]] located in the town of [[Fulton, Wisconsin|Fulton]], in [[Rock County, Wisconsin]], United States, on the [[Rock River (Mississippi River)|Rock River]].<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|1581155|Indianford, Wisconsin}}</ref><ref>[http://wisconsin.hometownlocator.com/wi/rock/indianford.cfm Wisconsin Hometown Locator]</ref> The Rock River is dammed at Indianford.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/dams/Indianford/background.html|title=Indianford Dam|website=Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources|accessdate=January 24, 2023}}</ref>

== History == The area of the modern-day community of Indianford was first established in 1837 just east of the town of [[Fulton, Wisconsin]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=William Fiske |url=https://archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow/page/684/mode/2up? |title=Rock County, Wisconsin; a new history of its cities, villages, towns, citizens and varied interests, from the earliest times, up to date |date=1908 |publisher=Chicago, C. F. Cooper & co. |others=New York Public Library |pages=670, 684-686 |language=en}}</ref> The settlement was named '''Indian Ford''' or '''Indianford''' due to the rivers historical use as a [[Ford (crossing)|ford]] across the [[Rock River (Mississippi River tributary)|Rock River]] by a local hamlet of [[Meskwaki]] or [[Sauk people]] near [[Lake Koshkonong]].<ref name=":0" /> The first recorded settler of Indianford was William B. Foster who operated a ford and [[ferry]] on the Rock River, hence the settlement near the ferry was often referred to as '''Foster's Ferry'''.<ref name=":0" /> The landing was purchased a year later in 1838 by Lyman Morse who operated the ferry and nicknamed it '''Morse's Landing'''.<ref name=":0" /> The first bridge across the Rock River was not built until 1845 in order to build a [[dam]].<ref name=":0" /> The village's formal name according to historian William Fiske Brown was known as '''Fulton Center''' due to its close association and proximity to the city of [[Fulton, Wisconsin]].<ref name=":0" />

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[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin]] [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Rock County, Wisconsin]]

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