Term: Cornish
Definition: people from Cornwall, the peninsula at the extreme southwestern end of Britain; mining had been its economic mainstay for centuries when lead mining by white settlers began in Wisconsin; so many Cornish miners emigrated here that by 1850 the Cornish immigrants made up half the population of the Lead Region in the southwestern part of the state.
[Source: Wyman, Mark. The Wisconsin Frontier (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).]
