This year three Wisconsin cities turn 150. Along with La Crosse and Beaver Dam, Madison is marking its incorporation. That happened in the mid 1850’s, a time when historians say newly settled populations were booming and citizens demanding services best provided by some type of local government entity.Shamane Mills reports…
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