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Area codes 608 and 353 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for much of southwestern Wisconsin, including the state capital city Madison. Area code 608 was assigned in 1955 to a numbering plan area created from areas with area code 414 and area code 715 , [ 1 ] and was the third area code created in Wisconsin. [ 2 ]
Before 1877, it was known as Sauk City Mills. It was the site of a now discontinued post office. The site of the first dam in Sauk County, Loddes Mill was built on lower Honey Creek in 1841 by Robert Bryant for a saw mill. He later sold it to H.B. Staines, who installed a pair of 28-inch burr stones and a shaking belt.
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.
Reedsburg Post Office. October 24, 2000 : 215 N. Walnut St. Reedsburg: Built in ... Sauk City High School. February 23, 1989 : 713 Madison St. Sauk City: 1916 ...
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.
The Sauk County Courthouse, located at 515 Oak Street in Baraboo, is the county courthouse serving Sauk County, Wisconsin. Built in 1906, the courthouse is Sauk County's fourth and its third in Baraboo. Wisconsin architecture firm Ferry & Clas designed the Neoclassical building. The courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
A post office called Black Hawk was established in 1866, and remained in operation until 1906. [3] The community was named after Black Hawk (1767–1838), Sauk and Fox leader. [ 4 ]
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.