Hayton is an unincorporated community in the town of Charlestown, Calumet County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located a few miles (kilometers) east of Chilton at the intersection of U.S. Route 151 and County T.
Location
The Killsnake River, a fork of the Manitowoc River, flows eastward through the community. It is dammed by a mill and the sediments have been contaminated by PCBs.
History Hayton was the first settlement on the Killsnake River. It was settled in the 1840s by William Urmston and it was originally named Wallersville after one of the landowners before it was renamed Hayton.
Notable people Jeremiah Wallace Baldock, Wisconsin State Assemblyman and farmer, lived in Hayton.'Veteran Is Called-Was A Pioneer of Chilton Town,' Chilton Times, December 13, 1919 William D. Carroll, Wisconsin State Senator, was born in Hayton.'Wisconsin Blue Book 1933,' Biographical Sketch of William D. Carroll, pg. 220
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