St. Peter, Wisconsin is an unincorporated

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in the Town of Taycheedah in

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. It is located approximately northeast of

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and south of

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. It was located on Wisconsin Highway 149 before the highway was decommissioned and turned over to county control as County Highway WH. As of the 2020 census, its population is 1,642, up from 1,489 at the 2010 census.

Holyland

St. Peter is in an area of eastern

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, and adjacent Calumet County known as " The Holyland", so called because of the large number of villages settled by German immigrants and built around Catholic churches, including

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, St. Cloud, Marytown,

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, Johnsburg,

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, Brothertown and

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.''Commemorating the centennial of St. Peter's Parish, St. Peter, Malone, Route One, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin''. 1967.

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