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Sauk City is a village in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States, located along the Wisconsin River. The population was 3,518 as of the 2020 census . The first incorporated village in the state, [ 6 ] the community was founded by Agoston Haraszthy and his business partner, Robert Bryant in the 1840s.
Sauk Prairie is the nickname for the adjacent villages of Sauk City and Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. The twin communities are located on the west bank of the Wisconsin River in southeastern Sauk County, where U.S. Highway 12 crosses the Wisconsin River. As of the 2020 census, the combined population of the two communities was 7,938.
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.
According to the state DNR’s fire monitoring dashboard, there have been 538 fires so far this year and almost 1,100 acres burned in Wisconsin. On Monday, the state DNR’s fire situation map ...
The width of the Wisconsin River and its bed of shifting sands required a deep foundation. Workers used steam-powered pile drivers to drive more than 11,000 timber pilings deep into the riverbed, and buried steel sheet piling across the river at the front and back of the dam. They then covered the array of wood pilings with rock and concrete to ...
The Sauk City Fire Station, begun in 1862, housed the city's early fire department, and served as a center of the community. Today it is one of the oldest fire stations in Wisconsin. [2] It looks much like it did in 1870 - a gable-roofed building with a hose-drying tower. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [3]
On July 21, 1832, the militia caught up with Black Hawk's band as they attempted to cross the Wisconsin River, near present-day Roxbury, in Dane County, near Sauk City, Wisconsin. [1] [4] As the militia approached the battleground, warriors appeared on the surrounding hillsides, attempting to divert their attention. According to Dodge's account ...
Sauk City: Firehouse built in 1889, with hose-drying tower added in 1894. Also served as village hall. [40] The volunteer fire department had organized in 1854, the first in the state. [68] 49: Sauk City High School: Sauk City High School