Edgerton, Wisconsin Edgerton, Wisconsin Location in Rock County and the state of Wisconsin.
Location in Rock County and the state of Wisconsin.
State Wisconsin Edgerton is a town/city in Rock County and partly in Dane County in the U.S.
State of Wisconsin.
Known locally as "Tobacco City U.S.A.," because of the importance of tobacco burgeoning in the region, Edgerton continues to be a center for the declining tobacco trade in the area.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Edgerton was the center of the tobacco trade in southern Wisconsin.
The parents appealed their case to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which on March 18, 1890, overruled the circuit court, concluding that reading the Bible did, in fact, constitute sectarian instruction, and thus illegally united the functions of church and state. Edgerton is positioned at 42 50 10 N 89 4 23 W (42.836108, -89.072919). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.14 square miles (10.72 km2), all of it land. None of the region is veiled with water, except for Saunders Creek, although the town/city is inside a five-minute drive of Lake Koshkonong.
Because Edgerton was once the center of the tobacco burgeoning region in Wisconsin, the community's annual celebration is called Tobacco Days.
The Sterling North Home and Museum is the childhood home of authors Sterling North and Jessica Nelson North Mac - Donald. North's most famous book, Rascal was set in Edgerton and he used the town as the setting for a several of his books, referring to it as "Brailsford Junction." Although Oscar's death and an economic depression disrupted the company in the 1890s, Pauline Jacobus continued making pottery in Edgerton until the early 1900s' fire that finished her non-urban Edgerton home, "The Bogart".
Much admired and sought-after as an American art form, "Pauline Pottery" is recognized in antique and art arcades throughout the world. A log cabin from the old Bogart site and the factory warehouse where Pauline Pottery was first made in Edgerton still survive. United States Enumeration Bureau.
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