Named from the following incident: when Mr. (T.H.) Wilder first located there, it had been raining for two weeks, and the sun had not made its appearance during all that time; but the next day, the sun made its appearance, and from this locality was named "Rising Sun."

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[Source: History of Crawford and Richland Counties, Wisconsin, p. 739.]