This town was named by Mrs. R. Speers, in 1848, at a meeting held at the schoolhouse. She had heard her father sing an old song commencing, "On Primrose hill there lived a lass," and suggested the name Primrose. Much talk was occasioned because the town was named by a woman.

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[Source: History of Dane County, Wisconsin, p. 916.]