Harrison is a former community in the town of Harrison, Calumet County,

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History

Harrison was settled in the 1870s around a Catholic church and school between Stockbridge and

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. The church's first priest was Rev. John Adt. The original community has been a

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since before the 1970s and the only remnant of that community is the church's cemetery.

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