Beaver Dam.—The seat of Wayland Academy

Baptist Church History

9/21/22  · Daily Baptist Encyclopedia (Post by Jim Curran) Beaver Dam.—The seat of Wayland Academy, on the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, 61 miles northwest of Milwaukee, the commercial centre of one of the richest portions of Wisconsin. ‘To the Baptists of Wisconsin the place is associated with the early struggles of the denomination in found- ing and establishing its institution of learning,— Wayland Academy.From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart