In Section 21, town of Excelsior. In 1846, a man died near a spring and it was afterwards named Dead Mans Spring, by James Babb. The man who died there was a surveyor; his name has been forgotten.

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[Source: p.24 Cole, Baraboo and other place names in Sauk County, Wisconsin.]