Cottage Grove: Similarities abound from Oregon to Wisconsin

Visitors to Cottage Grove, Wis., are greeted by a floral display and signs.

Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on “other” Cottage Groves across the country. 

The name of our town has taken a meandering path before being cemented to this locality. It started out in Creswell when Greenbery C. Pearce was awarded the title of Postmaster for the area south of Eugene in 1855. In those days the Postmaster operated out of…