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The building was constructed in 1912–13 to serve as Prairie du Sac's public library and village hall; the library had previously occupied two rooms of a local hotel. J. Stephens Tripp, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and a public official in Prairie du Sac and neighboring Sauk City, donated the majority of the library's construction ...
Prairie du Sac named because the area 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.
South Central Library System counties (in red) The South Central Library System (SCLS) is a consortium of 53 public libraries in 7 Wisconsin counties: Adams, Columbia, Dane, Green, Portage, Sauk, and Wood. The mission of the South Central Library System is " to help its member libraries provide the best possible service to the public." [1]
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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. [citation needed]
The Book of the Office Work of Geo. B. Ferry and ... L. D. Fargo Public Library (1899-1902 ... Tripp Memorial Library and Hall, 565 Water St., Prairie du Sac, WI ...
The Culver's restaurant franchise has its headquarters in Prairie du Sac, and was first opened in Sauk City in 1984. [18] That same year, Cirrus Aircraft, now of Duluth, Minnesota, was founded in a rural Baraboo barn by brothers Alan and Dale Klapmeier to produce the VK-30 kit aircraft. [19] [20] [21]
Location of Prairie du Sac (town), Wisconsin According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 30.4 square miles (78.6 km 2 ), of which, 29.5 square miles (76.4 km 2 ) of it is land and 0.9 square miles (2.2 km 2 ) of it (2.83%) is water.