The Wisconsin Department of Transportation website offers modern county maps.
The Wisconsin Historical Society’s digital collections include The Standard Atlas of Portage County, Wisconsin: Including a Plat Book of the Villages, Cities and Townships of the County. In addition to landownership maps, the 1915 publication includes illustrations of prominent individuals. Here’s the Plover Enlarged Plat of Sections 15 and East 1/2 of Section 16.
Black and white images of the atlas — sometimes referred to as 1915 Portage County platbook — are available on the Portage County Public Library website. Here’s an image of Plover Township.
At least one veteran of the 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry — Dennis Peebles, Company K — settled in Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin.
1st U.S. Colored Cavalry 
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