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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.
January 4, 2012. The Otto Sr. and Lisette Hahn House is a historic house at 626 Water Street in Sauk City, Wisconsin. The house was built between 1850 and 1857; Otto Sr. and Lisette Hahn, both German immigrants, bought it in 1866. The one-story brick house has a side gable plan, a popular vernacular layout in the mid-nineteenth century in which ...
Built. 1942. In use. World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War. The Badger Army Ammunition Plant (BAAP or Badger) or Badger Ordnance Works (B.O.W.) is an excess, non- BRAC, United States Army facility located near Sauk City, Wisconsin. It manufactured nitrocellulose -based propellants during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
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 ...
00000257 [1] Added to NRHP. March 29, 2000. The Lachmund Family House, also known as the Halasz/Lachmund House, is a historic house located at 717 Water Street in Sauk City, Wisconsin. It is locally significant in the social history of Sauk City. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 2000.
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.
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 ...
91000468 [1] Added to NRHP. April 30, 1991. The August W. Derleth House, also known as the Place of Hawks, is located at S10431a Lueders Road in Sauk City, Wisconsin. It was the former home of author August Derleth. Built in 1939, the house reflects Derleth's early success as a writer, having earned recognition as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1938.