Lund is an
unincorporated community
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located in two counties of the
U.S. state
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of
Wisconsin
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. The community lies on the county line between
Pepin County, in the town of
Pepin, and
Pierce County, in the town of
Maiden Rock, in central western Wisconsin, along the junctions of County Trunk Highway SS (CTH-SS), CTH-CC(formerly
WIS 183), and CTH-J. Lund is approximately nine miles northwest of
Pepin and six miles northeast of
Stockholm, Wisconsin.
History
The community was named after
Lund, Sweden
Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...
.
The birthplace of
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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,
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/ref> romanticized in her book ''Little House in the Big Woods
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,'' is about one mile southeast of Lund, and is commemorated at the nearby Little House Wayside
The Little House Wayside is a rest area located in Pepin County, Wisconsin. It is approximately seven miles (11 km) northwest of Pepin, Wisconsin located in the town of Stockholm and approximately one mile southeast of Lund on County Highway CC ...
.
Notes
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Pierce County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Pepin County, Wisconsin
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