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Mount Vernon

Origin of Mount Vernon, Wisconsin

Mount Vernon, Wisconsin | Wisconsin Historical Society
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Named by Joel Britt, an early settler from Virginia, after George Washington's home.

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[Source: Milwaukee Sentinel, Aug. 16, 1948.]