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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.
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.
The walk-up stand Pete's Hamburgers operates in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. It is open Friday through Sunday from April through October. [1] [2] [3] Pete's serves a hamburger that is poached in shallow water with thinly sliced onions that are poached along with the burgers. [1]
In the 1840s, the Hungarian nobleman Agoston Haraszthy came across sloped land across the Wisconsin River from what would be Prairie du Sac and planted it with grapevines for wine making. [2] During his short time in Wisconsin, Haraszthy also incorporated the state’s first village, Sauk City , across the Wisconsin River from his winery.
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.
The Tripp Memorial Library and Hall is a historic building at 565 Water Street in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.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.
East of Prairie du Sac on WI 188: Roxbury: Structures from German immigrant Peter Kehl's pioneer vineyard overlooking the Wisconsin River: 1857 barrel-vaulted wine cellar, [36] 1858 house with fine stonework, [37] and 1859 Italianate-styled brewery. [38]
565 Water St. Prairie du Sac: J. S. Tripp, a local banker, lawyer and public servant, donated funds to build a library and village hall. William Dresen and Alfred C. Clas designed it in Neoclassical style and it opened in 1913. [76] 60