Burkhardt is an

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St. Croix County, Wisconsin St. Croix County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 93,536. Its county seat is Hudson. The county was created in 1840 (then in the Wisconsin Territory) and organized in 1849. St. Croix County ...

located between the cities of

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, and New Richmond in the town of

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History

It was originally named Bouchea (possibly after Peter Bouchea, one of the first four settlers of Hudson), and was renamed in honor of Christian Burkhardt (1834-1931), owner and operator of the mills there, by

Guy Dailey Guy W. Dailey (July 24, 1827 – January 2, 1899) was a farmer from Hudson, Wisconsin,USA, who was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from St. Croix County for a single one-year term. Background Dailey was born in Massena, New York, on J ...

, during Dailey's single term representing the county in the

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."Burkhardt: St. Croix County" in, Grant, Robert and L. G. Sorden. ''The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names'' Spring Green, Wisconsin: Wisconsin House, 1969

References

Unincorporated communities in St. Croix County, Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin {{StCroixCountyWI-geo-stub