RIPON, a post-village in Fond du Lac co., Wisconsin, on the inlet of Green lake, 77 miles N. W. by W. from Milwaukee. Brockway College, a Presbyterian institution, is located at this place. It contains sash, chair, cabinet, and woollen factories. (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)
RIPON, P. V., on section 21, town 16 N., of range 14 E., in Fond du Lac county, 22 miles west from Fond du Lac, and 64 miles northeast from Madison; on inlet to Green Lake, which falls 100 feet in distance of one mile. Water power is improved to half its capacity. Brockway college, a Presbyterian institution, is located at this place. There are Episcopal, Methodist, and Presbyterian congregations. There are sash, chair, cabinet and woollen factories. At this point the following highways cross each other:—from Watertown to Fox River and the Menomonee country—from Madison to Oshkosh and Green Bay—and from Fond du Lac to La Crosse. (John Warren Hunt, Wisconsin Gazetteer..., Madison, 1853)