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Pleasant Ridge [2] Grant. 42°49′52″N 90°48′47″W. c. 1850. 1959. Settled by formerly enslaved African Americans in the 1850s, Pleasant Ridge was home to over 100 people, approximately half of whom were African Americans, through the early 20th century. The last resident died in 1959.
Grantsburg, Wisconsin. Location of Grantsburg in Burnett County, Wisconsin. / 45.78028°N 92.73389°W / 45.78028; -92.73389. Grantsburg is a village in Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,341 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Grantsburg. It was established by Canute Anderson .
Pages in category "Ghost towns in Grant County, Wisconsin" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Grantsburg is located in southwestern Burnett County, with the St. Croix River forming the western border of the town, county, and state of Wisconsin. Pine County, Minnesota , is across the river. The village of Grantsburg is a separate municipality that is surrounded by the town of Grantsburg and is located east of the geographic center of the ...
Regional folklore holds that the Ridgeway Ghost is a combination of two brothers who had the misfortune to be murdered as a result of a bar brawl sometime in the early 1840s [1] and was sighted anywhere from the village of Blue Mounds to the town of Dodgeville in Iowa County, Wisconsin a 25-mile stretch of old mining road, since the 1840s. [4]
Harrison, Grant County, Wisconsin. / 42.72194°N 90.62222°W / 42.72194; -90.62222. The Town of Harrison is a town in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 497 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Cornelia is located in the town.
In 1850 they renamed it Grand Chute after the town of Grand Chute. Grand Chute was one of three villages that developed around Lawrence Institute (now Lawrence University ). The villages of Lawesburg, Appleton, and Grand Chute were all nestled along the Fox River (Wisconsin). The former villages of Grand Chute and Lawesburg have since been ...
Category. : Ghost towns of Douglas County, Wisconsin. Former communities in Douglas County, Wisconsin now defunct.