Mayfield is an

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in the Town of Polk in Washington County,

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, United States. It is west of

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and east of Slinger. It lies to the northwest of the intersection of

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and

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History

Mayfield was settled and platted in 1852 by Andreas Reiderer, an immigrant from

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, who named it after the Swiss town of

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. Reiderer built a sawmill along the Cedar Creek. The area was also called for Katzbach for a short time, after Joseph Katz, who built a store in the community. Mayfield received a post office in 1859, but quickly declined after the railroad stopped instead at Jackson, less than a mile to the east.

Lady Antebellum concert

On October 21, 2010, Mayfield made news when country music group

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performed a free concert at a

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station in the community. The concert was an attempt to make amends for comments the group had made in an interview with ''

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'' about a performance they had held in nearby Slinger before their rise to fame.

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, a member of the group, stated that the comments were taken out of context and that the magazine neglected to print that they had said the performance in Slinger was "a lot of fun".

Notable people

* George W. Koch, Wisconsin State Assemblyman, farmer, and businessman, was born in Mayfield.Halford Erickson (comp.).
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin
'. Milwaukee: Northwestern Litho, 1903, p. 1108.

References

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