Tanktown [origin of place name] | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Tanktown [origin of place name]

Tanktown [origin of place name] | Wisconsin Historical Society
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Originally a settlement by itself, was founded by Rev. Otto Tank, formerly a Norwegian missionary... He arrived here in 1850, and soon... began the building of the place which bears his name.

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[Source: French. History of Brown County, p. 137.]