Truesdell is a residential and business neighborhood of the city of Kenosha

Kenosha, Wisconsin

Kenosha is a city and the county seat of Kenosha County in the State of Wisconsin in United States. With a population of 99,218 as of May 2011, Kenosha is the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin. Kenosha is also the fourth-largest city on the western shore of Lake Michigan, following Chicago,...

 in east-central Kenosha County

Kenosha County, Wisconsin

-Demographics: As of the census of 2000, there were 149,577 people, 56,057 households, and 38,455 families residing in the county. The population density was 548 people per square mile . There were 59,989 housing units at an average density of 220 per square mile...

, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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, United States

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. It lies along Highway 50

Highway 50 (Wisconsin)

State Trunk Highway 50 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The highway serves Walworth and Kenosha counties in southeast Wisconsin. Highway 50 runs from Wisconsin Highway 11 in Delavan east to Wisconsin Highway 32 in Kenosha...

 on the former Milwaukee Road (now Canadian Pacific) main railroad line from Chicago, Illinois. The last Milwaukee Road passenger trains stopped in Truesdell in 1945, but there are still switching facilities present. The community was settled by Gideon and Julia Truesdell in the 19th Century, but the community itself has disappeared within the city of Kenosha and related surrounding development, though some businesses still identify with the original name. The Truesdell post office

Post office

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, organized in 1870, closed on May 1, 1953; its postmistress, Mrs. Jennie H. Alsted, had operated it from her home's back porch for 31 years.