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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dane County, Wisconsin.
Dane County was formed in 1836 as a territorial county and organized in 1839. It was named after Nathan Dane, a Massachusetts delegate to the Congress of the Confederation who helped carve Wisconsin out of the Northwest Territory. Dane County was settled in the 1840s by settlers from New England. It contains the city of Madison, the state capitol. It also contains the Ho-Chunk Indian Reservation.
For Other Towns, Villages & Communities, Please see Wikipedia.
National Register of Historic Places
Dane County Area Genealogical Society
Dane County Historical Society