- Sinsinawa, Wisconsin
Sinsinawa is an unincorporated community in Grant County,
Wisconsin ,Wisconsin . The community is in the Town of Jamestown, and the Town of Hazel Green, one mile north of the border withIllinois . The community is 7.5 miles east ofDubuque, Iowa and 6.5 miles west of the village ofHazel Green, Wisconsin . The town is best known for being the mother house of theSinsinawa Dominican Sisters .The community's name means either "
rattlesnake " or "Home of the YoungEagle " in Sioux. The first white settler in the area was George Wallace Jones, who purchased land for alead smelter in1827 . He soon sold the land toSamuel Mazzuchelli , who subsequently built a men's college in1846 . Mazzuchelli founded the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters in1847 . This religious order founded a women's college and high school in Sinsinawa in1865 . [ [http://www.grantcounty.org/visitor/towns.html#Sinsinawa Grant County, Wisconsin Visitor Information - Towns and Villages ] ]Sinsinawa Mound is a cone-shaped hill in the area, from which the area gets its name. Sinsinawa Creek runs along the hill south towards the
Fever River inIllinois .The
Sinsinawa Mound raid ofJune 29 ,1832 , part of theBlack Hawk War , took place near Sinsinawa Mounds.Notes
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* [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=4143&term_type_id=2&term_type_text=Places&letter=S Sinsinawa] , [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=4041&term_type_id=2&term_type_text=Places&letter=S the word Sinsinawa] and [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=514&term_type_id=2&term_type_text=Places&letter=S Sinsinawa Mound] from the "Dictionary of Wisconsin History", published by the Wisconsin State Historical Society
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