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GNIS feature ID. 1583085 [2] Website. www.dickeyville.com. Dickeyville is a village in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,061 at the 2010 census. The Dickeyville Grotto is located in the heart of the village. [6]
Grant County, Wisconsin. 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 ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Boscobel High School as of 1900. Boscobel (/ ˈbɒskoʊbɛl / BOSS-koh-bel) [3] is a city in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,286 at the 2020 census. Approximately 0.6 mi. (1 km) to the north of the city, across a riparian swamp, is the Wisconsin River. U.S. Route 61 crosses the Wisconsin River at Boscobel.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 23.5% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 20.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.0 males.
Grant County Courthouse (Wisconsin) / 42.84750°N 90.71000°W / 42.84750; -90.71000. The Grant County Courthouse, built in 1902, is an historic glass-and-copper-domed county courthouse building located at 126 West Main Street in Lancaster, Wisconsin. Designed by Armand D. Koch in the Classical Revival style, it was built of red sandstone.
John James Blaine (May 4, 1875 – April 16, 1934) was an American lawyer and progressive Republican politician from Grant County, Wisconsin. He was the 24th governor of Wisconsin, serving three terms from 1921 to 1927, and served as United States senator from 1927 to 1933. Earlier, he was the 23rd Attorney General of Wisconsin, a member of the ...
Elevation. [1] 1,014 ft (309 m) Pleasant Ridge is a former community in the Town of Beetown, Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. Settled c. 1850 by a family of formerly enslaved African Americans from Fauquier County, Virginia, Pleasant Ridge was a rural community with a significant population of formerly enslaved people and their descendants.