Sinsinawa, Wisconsin

Sinsinawa, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
Sinsinawa
Sinsinawa Location within the state of Wisconsin Sinsinawa Sinsinawa (the United States) Show map of WisconsinShow map of the United StatesShow all
Coordinates: 42°31′25″N 90°32′21″W / 42.52361°N 90.53917°W / 42.52361; -90.53917Coordinates: 42°31′25″N 90°32′21″W / 42.52361°N 90.53917°W / 42.52361; -90.53917
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Grant
Towns	Jamestown, Hazel Green
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	608

Sinsinawa (/ˌsɪnˈsɪnəwɑː/) is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States.^[1][2] The community is in the towns of Jamestown and Hazel Green, one mile north of the border with Illinois. The community is 7+1⁄2 miles (12.1 km) east of Dubuque, Iowa, and 6+1⁄2 miles (10.5 km) west of the village of Hazel Green, Wisconsin. The town is best known for being the mother house of the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters.

History[]

The community's name means either "rattlesnake" or "Home of the Young Eagle" in Sioux. The first white settler in the area was George Wallace Jones, who purchased land for a lead smelter in 1827. He soon sold the land to the Dominican priest Samuel Mazzuchelli, who subsequently built a men's college, Sinsinawa Mound College, in 1846. Mazzuchelli founded the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters in 1847. This religious order founded a women's college and high school in Sinsinawa in 1865.^[3]

Sinsinawa Mound[]

Sinsinawa Mound is a cone-shaped hill in the area, from which the area gets its name. Sinsinawa River runs along the hill south towards the Mississippi River in Illinois.^[4]

The Sinsinawa Mound raid of June 29, 1832, part of the Black Hawk War, took place near Sinsinawa Mound. In August 2007 there was a commemoration of the 175th anniversary on the war.

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External links[]

• Sinsinawa, the word Sinsinawa and Sinsinawa Mound from the Dictionary of Wisconsin History, published by the Wisconsin State Historical Society