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Lancaster is located in the unglaciated "Driftless Area" of southwest Wisconsin whose topography is strikingly different from that of the rest of the state. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.01 square miles (7.80 km 2), all of it land.
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 ...
Headquarters. United States. Circulation. 2,238 (as of 2022) [1] Website. swnews4u .com. The Grant County Herald Independent is a newspaper printed in Lancaster, Wisconsin. Owned by Morris Multimedia, it is the state's oldest weekly newspaper. The newspaper was first published in 1843 under the name of the Grant County Herald.
Grant County Courthouse. More images. October 19, 1978. ( #78000096) 126 W. Main St. 42°50′51″N 90°42′36″W. / 42.8475°N 90.71°W / 42.8475; -90.71 ( Grant County Courthouse) Lancaster. 3-story courthouse with glass and copper dome, designed by Armand D. Koch of Milwaukee in Neoclassical style and built in 1902.
George Barnett (1859–1930), Commandant of the United States Marine Corps (Lancaster, Boscobel) Stuart E. Barstad (1929–2009), Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force ( Colfax ) William A. Barstow (1813–1865), Union Army general (Waukesha, Janesville)
The Lancaster Post Office opened in 1938, with George H. Cox serving as its first postmaster. It was one of several Wisconsin post offices built by the Public Works Administration in the 1930s; as the PWA commonly reused building designs, it was nearly identical to the Lake Geneva post office. In 1940, artist Tom Rost painted a mural on the ...
The Lancaster Municipal Building is a multi-purpose public building in Lancaster, Wisconsin. It houses the city hall and the Grantland Theatre, a single screen movie theatre and community performance venue. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 for its significance as an example of local Prairie School ...
South Lancaster, Wisconsin. / 42.80667°N 90.73333°W / 42.80667; -90.73333. South Lancaster is a town in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 808 at the 2000 census.