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TOWNSHIPS
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Ashippun
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Burnett
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Beaver Dam
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Calamus
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Chester
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Clyman
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Elba
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Emmet
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Fox Lake
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Herman
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Hubbard
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Hustiford
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Lebanon
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Leroy
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Lomira
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Lowell
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Oak Grove
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Portland
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Rubicon
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Shields
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Theresa
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Trenton
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Westford
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Williamstown
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Cities
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Beaver Dam
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Clyman
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Fox Lake
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Hustiford
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Lomira
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Lowell
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Theresa
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Its county seat is Juneau.
More than 10,000 years ago, small bands of people entered Dodge County on the edge of the receding glacier.
Numerous sites within the county show evidence of the early inhabitants including stone tools, campsites and settlements,
burial and effigy mounds, garden plots and paintings and carvings on rock outcrops and stones.
Dodge County was created in 1836 and named in honor of Henry Dodge, then territorial governor of Wisconsin. The
Town of Victory was chosen as the County Seat. The Town of Victory was later renamed City of Juneau after Paul
Juneau, the son of Solomon Juneau, founder of Milwaukee.
In 1845 iron ore was discovered in Mayville and an iron ore works operated here for several decades until competition
from mines in the Lake Superior region closed them. Sawmills and gristmills were widely distributed over Dodge
County in the 1870's. In 1875, John Jossie, came from Switzerland, developed the variety of cheese known as brick,
and later opened the first brick cheese factory in the United States in Watertown, operating until 1943.
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Surrounding
Counties
* Fond du Lac County * Washington
County * Waukesha County *
* Jefferson County * Dane County * Columbia County *
* Green Lake County *
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