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Madison

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
S central Wisconsin; situated partially on isthmus between Lake Mendota & Lake Monona; site of Unitarian Church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; state capitol building contains legislative library organized by Charles McCarthy.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);

Born

William Washburn (American, born 1944)

Dyani White Hawk (American and Sičangu Lakota, born 1976)

Active

Robert Schultz (American, born 1953)

Died

John Steuart Curry (American, 1897-1946)

Frances Myers (American, 1936-2015)

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