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Lancaster originated as a planned community to serve as the county seat for Grant County. Anticipating the county's establishment in 1836, Major Glendower M. Price, a Cassville merchant and land speculator, purchased the site of Lancaster for its central location in the county. Major Price platted the town on a compass-aligned grid in 1837 ...
Grant County is the most southwestern county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,938. [2] Its county seat is Lancaster and its largest city is Platteville. [3] The county is named after the Grant River, in turn named after a fur trader who lived in the area when Wisconsin was a territory. [4]
The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map. [1] There are 39 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 20, 2024. [2]
The following 84 pages use this file: Avoca River-Bottom Prairie; Bagley, Wisconsin; Beetown, Wisconsin; Beetown (community), Wisconsin; Bigpatch, Wisconsin
State Trunk Highway 129 (often called Highway 129, STH-129 or WIS 129) is a 2.69-mile (4.33 km) state highway in central Grant County, Wisconsin, United States, that runs from U.S. Route 61/Wisconsin Highway 35/Wisconsin Highway 81 (US 61/WIS 35/WIS 81) southeast of the city of Lancaster north to US 61 northeast of the city of Lancaster, bypassing the city to the east.
County Location mi km Destinations Notes; Grant: Tennyson: 0.0: 0.0: US 61 / WIS 35 / Great River Road south / CTH-O – Dickeyville, Lancaster: Cassville: 18.9: 30.4: Wall Street to Cassville Ferry
It intersects County Trunk Highway U (CTH-U) in Beetown and then runs concurrently with WIS 33 along the Grant River west of Five Points. From there, it continues running northeast, intersecting with CTH-N before reaching Lancaster, where it starts running concurrently with US Highway 61 (US 61).
The last representative of the Grant County district, James N. Azim Jr., was elected in 1972 as the first representative of the 49th Assembly district. [ 6 ] With the exception of the 1982 court-ordered redistricting plan, which scrambled all State Assembly districts, [ 7 ] the 49th district has remained based in Grant County since 1972.