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Green County's alchemy of soil to cheese and gold
Green County evolved from lead prospecting to a dairy driven economy. Early settlers mixed mining with farming, with developers like Deviese and Clarno amid 19th century upheaval. Swiss and Yankee settlers built a cheese and milk industry, creating a rural tax of prosperity through dozens of cheese factories and related farms.
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Green County
Sugar River
Exeter
Prairie du Chien
Ft. Crawford
Richard Egan
Orfordville
William Deviese
Peoria
Deviese
Egan
Andrew Clarno
Clarno
McNutt
Boner
Ft. Hamilton
Wiota
Lafayette
Grant Counties
Attica
Green
Wisconsin
Ohio
Bilten
Washington Township
Nick
Gerber
Switzerland
Herkimer County
N. Y
Wheeling
Ill
New Glarus Township
Trumpys
Hoestys
Voegelis
Heftys
Stauffachers