Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Location: Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United States
Surname/tag: wisconsin
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| Trempealeau County, Wisconsin |
| Northwest Eau Claire County, |
North Eau Claire County, |
Northeast Eau Claire County, |
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| West Buffalo County |
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Trempealeau County, Wisconsin |
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East Jackson County |
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South La Crosse County |
Southeast La Crosse County |
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History
Named from its principal river. This stream was so called from a contiguous bluff, familiarly known to the early French voyageurs as La montagne qui trempe a l'eau ("the mountain that is steeped in the water"). This, in its turn, seems to have been a translation of the Indian term, Pah-hah-dak, the Sioux word for "mountain separated by water;" or Hay-nee-ah-chah, the Ho-Chunk word for "soaking mountain" -- see Wis. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, 1906, p. 246. [1]
Trempealeau County was created by legislature on January 24, 1854. The Board of Supervisors at Montoville (currently Trempealeau) acted as the county board until other cities in the county organized. The first chairman was Horace F. Owen. Supervisors included Isaac Noyes and William Nichols and Charles Cameron. The first election results were as follows: [2]
September 1854
- B.F. Heuston, County Judge
November 1854
- Charles Utter, district attorney
- Ira Moore, sheriff
- George Smith, clerk of court
- A.W. Armstrong, registrar
- Hollister Wright, treasurer
- George Turton, surveyor
- Will Adams, coroner
Communities
Cities
- Arcadia
- Blair
- Galesville
- Independence
- Osseo
- Whitehall
Villages
- Eleva
- Ettrick
- Pigeon Falls
- Strum
- Trempealeau
Trempealeau County Online Records
Cemetery Records
Census Records
Trempealeau County Books
- Curti, Merle. 1959. The Making of an American Community. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California.
- Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn. 1917. History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin. H.C.Cooper, Jr., & CO., Chicago and Winona
- History of Northern Wisconsin; Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881.
Footnotes
- ↑ Dictionary of Wisconsin History; https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS13778
- ↑ The La Crosse Tribune, 13 May 1928, Sun · Page 8
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