JUNEAU, formerly Dodge Centre, a post village, capital of Dodge co., Wisconsin, is pleasantly situated in the centre of the county, on the Fond du Lac and Rock River railroad, 40 miles E. N. E. from Madison. It was laid out and selected as the county seat about the year 1850, and named in memory of the first white settler of Wisconsin. The surrounding country is fertile, and rapidly improving. A newspaper is published here. Population in 1853, estimated at 500. (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)
JUNEAU, P. V. (formerly Dodge Centre,) and county seat of Dodge county, is situated on section 21 of town 11 N., of range 15 E., being the town of Oak Grove, formerly Fairfield. It has a beautiful location, on the surveyed route of the R. R. V. U. R. R. Population 300; with 50 dwellings, 3 stores, 2 hotels, and 3 religious denominations. (John Warren Hunt, Wisconsin Gazetteer..., Madison, 1853)