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Sinsinawa, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
Sinsinawa
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Coordinates: 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	608

Sinsinawa (/ˌsɪnˈsɪnəwɑː/) is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. 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.

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.

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.

Notes

1. "Sinsinawa, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Sinsinawa, Wisconsin
3. Grant County, Wisconsin Visitor Information - Towns and Villages
4. "Sinsinawa Mound (Wisconsin)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.

External links

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

v t e Municipalities and communities of Grant County, Wisconsin, United States
County seat: Lancaster
Cities	Boscobel Cuba City‡ Fennimore Lancaster Platteville
Villages	Bagley Bloomington Blue River Cassville Dickeyville Hazel Green‡ Livingston‡ Montfort‡ Mount Hope Muscoda‡ Patch Grove Potosi Tennyson Woodman
Towns	Beetown Bloomington Boscobel Cassville Castle Rock Clifton Ellenboro Fennimore Glen Haven Harrison Hazel Green Hickory Grove Jamestown Liberty Lima Little Grant Marion Millville Mount Hope Mount Ida Muscoda North Lancaster Paris Patch Grove Platteville Potosi Smelser South Lancaster Waterloo Watterstown Wingville Woodman Wyalusing
CDPs	Glen Haven Kieler Sandy Hook
Other communities	Arthur Beetown Bigpatch British Hollow Brodtville Buena Vista Burton Castle Rock Centerville Cornelia Diamond Grove Ellenboro Elmo Fair Play Five Points Flora Fountain Georgetown Hickory Grove Homer Hurricane Lancaster Junction Louisburg McCartney Millville Mount Ida North Andover Prairie Corners Preston Rockville Rutledge Saint Rose Shady Dell Sinsinawa Stitzer Union Van Buren Werley Wyalusing
Former communities	Pleasant Ridge Sinnipee
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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