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Prairie du Sac was so named because it was in the large Wisconsin River Valley where the Sauk Indians had a large settlement. [7] Although the name of the village dates from the early days of French fur traders, Prairie du Sac was established as a village by D.B. Crocker in 1840, largely as a Yankee-English village, [8] in contrast to its neighbor, Sauk City, which was settled largely by Germans.
Sauk Prairie, Wisconsin. Coordinates: 43°16′55″N 89°43′52″W. Location of Sauk Prairie (Sauk City and Prairie du Sac) US-12 crossing the Wisconsin River into Sauk City with Priarie Du Sac to the right. Sauk Prairie is the nickname for the adjacent villages of Sauk City and Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. The twin communities are located on ...
Location of Prairie du Sac (town), Wisconsin According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 30.4 square miles (78.6 km 2 ), of which, 29.5 square miles (76.4 km 2 ) of it is land and 0.9 square miles (2.2 km 2 ) of it (2.83%) is water.
Prairie du Chien (/ ˌ p r ɛ r i d u ˈ ʃ iː n /) is a city in and the county seat of Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 5,506 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] Often called Wisconsin's second-oldest city, Prairie du Chien was established as a European settlement by French voyageurs in the late 17th century. [ 4 ]
81000060 [1] Added to NRHP. September 14, 1981. The Tripp Memorial Library and Hall is a historic building at 565 Water Street in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. The building was constructed in 1912–13 to serve as Prairie du Sac's public library and village hall; the library had previously occupied two rooms of a local hotel. J.
April 6, 1990. The Honey Creek Swiss Rural Historic District is a national historic district in rural Sauk County, Wisconsin. The district encompasses 46 farms over 12 square miles (31 km 2) which were settled by Swiss Americans in the 1840s and 1850s. The settlers were Walser people from the canton of Graubünden, and the Honey Creek area ...
The Prairie du Sac Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Wisconsin River just north of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. It is owned and operated by Alliant Energy. [2] The dam forms Lake Wisconsin. It is the last dam on the Wisconsin River before its confluence with the Mississippi River about 92 miles (148 km) downstream, and it marks the upper end of ...
January 4, 2012. ( #11001015) 626 Water St. 43°16′26″N 89°43′13″W. / 43.273783°N 89.720169°W / 43.273783; -89.720169 ( Otto Sr. and Lisette Hahn House) Sauk City. Red brick house built between 1850 and 1857. Hahn, an immigrant harness -maker bought the house in 1866 and built a workshop next to it. After his wife Lisette ...