Mill Center, Wisconsin
Pittsfield is a town in Brown County, Wisconsin, Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 2,608 at the 2010 census. Communities * Anston is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community located along County Road U near the intersection with Anston Road. The community was named for a family of settlers within the area. * Kunesh, Wisconsin, Kunesh is a defunct village that is now unincorporated; it is located at the intersection of County Road U and Kunesh Road. * Mill Center is an unincorporated community located at the intersection of County Road C and Glendale Avenue. Portions of the community is located in the nearby Howard, Wisconsin, village of Howard. * Pittsfield is an unincorporated community split between Brown and Shawano County, Wisconsin, Shawano counties along WIS 156. Geography Pittsfield is located in northwestern Brown County, bordered by Oconto County, Wisconsin, Oconto County to the north, Shawano County, Wisconsin, Shawano County to ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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