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Sauk Prairie has also had a long rivalry with the Lodi Blue Devils, even though the teams play in separate conferences. In basketball, the "Wisconsin River Classic" is played between Sauk Prairie and Lodi. They Battle for the Paddle. The paddle is blue on one side and red on the other. Sauk leads the trophy series 4-2, losing to Lodi in 2019 ...
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 ...
Dane County, Wisconsin. Dane County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 561,504, making it the second-most populous county in Wisconsin after Milwaukee County. [1] The county seat is Madison, [2] which is also the state capital. Dane County is the central county of the Madison metropolitan area ...
Website. www.co.sauk.wi.us. Sauk County is a county in Wisconsin. It is named after a large village of the Sauk people. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,763. [2] Its county seat and largest city is Baraboo. [3] The county was created in 1840 from Wisconsin Territory and organized in 1844. [4]
Poynette have been in the same conferences since 1982, but will be separated in 2020 for football only. Sauk Prairie and Lodi play in the "Wisconsin River Classic" and Battle for the Paddle. The paddle is blue on one side and red on the other. Sauk Prairie leads the trophy series 4–2, with Lodi winning the last contest in 2019, 61–53.
Sauk people. Massika, a Sauk Indian, left, with Wakusasse (Meskwaki) at right. Aquatint of painting by Karl Bodmer, made at St. Louis in Spring 1833 when Massika pleaded for the release of war chief Blackhawk following the Black Hawk War. The Sauk or Sac are Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands.
In the Harper's Weekly magazine of November 21, 1914, Sauk City was named "America's Foremost City". The article cited a pageant, attended by 4000 people, which enacted scenes from the village's history, and concluded with the naming of the school principal as the Civic Secretary, charged with making the school the center of the life of the town.
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.