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Cottage Grove [origin of place name] | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Cottage Grove [origin of place name]

Cottage Grove [origin of place name] | Wisconsin Historical Society
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Named for a grove of burr oaks in which one of the area's earliest settlers, William C. Wells, built a cottage.

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[Source: Milwaukee Sentinel, Jul. 24, 1948.]