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Grant County Wisconsin
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Grant County
Grant County was created as part of Wisconsin Territory in 1837.
It was named after an Indian trader; his first name, origins, and eventual fate are all unknown.
What is now Grant County was largely uninhabited prior to contact with Europeans, as it was a border region between the territories of the Kickapoo, Menominee, and Illinois tribes. The only Indians to have a permanent settlement in the area were the Fox tribe, who had a temporary village in what is now the extreme northeast of the county during the mid-1700s.
The county seat is Lancaster
A former mining community, the county is now mostly agricultural
Cities
Boscobel * Cuba City (partly in Lafayette County) * Fennimore * Lancaster * Platteville
Villages
Bagley * Bloomington * Blue River * Cassville * Dickeyville * Hazel Green (partly in Lafayette County) * Livingston (partly in Iowa County)
Montfort (partly in Iowa County) * Muscoda (partly in Iowa County) * Mount Hope * Patch Grove * Potosi * Tennyson * Woodman
Towns
Beetown * Bloomington * Cassville * Castle Rock * Clifton * Ellenboro * Fennimore * Glen Haven * Harrison * Hazel Green * Hickory Grove *
Jamestown * Liberty * Lima * Little Grant * Marion * Millville * Mount Hope * Mount Ida * Muscoda * North Lancaster * Paris *
Patch Grove * Platteville * Potosi * Smelser * South Lancaster * Waterloo * Watterstown * Wingville * Woodman * Wyalusing
Census-designated places
Glen Haven * Kieler * Sandy Hook
Many Unincorporated Communities
Ghost town/neighborhood: Sinnipee
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