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Potosi is located where Wisconsin's lead ore belt intersects with the Mississippi. The post office (1837 to present) was originally located between Van Buren and Head of the Hollow, then at Van Buren, then at La Fayette.
The Potosi Brewing Company building re-opened as a museum and brewpub in 2008 following a $7.5 million restoration. [10] The Potosi Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and sole owner of the Potosi Brewing Company, reopened the brewery in 2008. The Foundation is run by a board of elected volunteers and donates its profits to charity ...
Once a natural cave, Native Americans mined lead out of the site before Wisconsin's "lead rush" in 1827. [2] The first non-Native American work the mine was Willis St. John. The mine is privately owned and tours are no longer availabl
POTOSI, Wisconsin − It looked like a bomb had gone off in the brewery.. In the days after it closed, people ransacked the building, taking whatever they could carry, perhaps as mementos or items ...
Potosi Town Hall 02. The Town [1] of Potosi is located in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States.The population was 831 at the 2000 census. The Village of Potosi and the unincorporated communities of British Hollow, Buena Vista, Rockville, and Van Buren are located in the town.
Location of Grant County in Wisconsin. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grant County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Grant County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the ...
The Potosi Badger Huts Site is located in Potosi, Wisconsin. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1] It was listed for its potential to yield information in the future. [3] It is an archeological site which includes the remnants of two structures, plus 100 "diggings", shafts, and a possible adit. The site ...
The first white residents were Terence Coyle and his family, who built a cabin there and were in permanent occupancy by the spring of 1832. In 1836, when Grant County was organized, it was made a separate precinct from the rest of Potosi, and named Pleasant Valley, a name which it still held at the time of the passage of the original (1848) Constitution of Wisconsin.