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Twelve Mile Bluff [origin of place name] | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Twelve Mile Bluff [origin of place name]

Twelve Mile Bluff [origin of place name] | Wisconsin Historical Society
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Alma was originally called Twelve Mile Bluff, from a large rock back of the present village, twelve miles above the settlement at Fountain City.

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[Source: Curtiss-Wedge. History of Buffalo and Pepin Counties, Wis., p. 84.]