Universalist Church – 

Stoughton’s first church was organized in 1857 and completed in 1858.  Earlier services were held at the Red Brick Schoolhouse.  The first service inside the church was Christmas day 1858 by Rev. Cheeseman Dodge.  

L.R. Usher and Ogden Isham broke the first furrows for the excavation with their oxen and also hauled the brick from Milwaukee by oxteam. 

The church is a Greek Revival, designed by Stephen Shipman and P.J.Hynes and built with cream city brick.  

Prior to 1882 the Pastors were:  Revs. B.F. Dodge, Mr. Peck, B.F. Rodgers, Miss Swartz, J.C. Crawford, Mr. Horne, L.B. Mason, E. Garfield, S.W. Sutton, and Rev. Edgar Leavitt.