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NEW GLARUS

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GLARUS , a See also:town and a See also:village of See also:Green See also:county, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., about 22 M. S.W. of See also:Madison, on the Little See also:Sugar See also:river, a See also:branch of the See also:Rock river. Pop. of the town (1890) 118o; (1900) 1245; (1905) 685; (Igio) 627; of the village, which was separated from the town in 1901 (1905) 665; (igio) 708. New Glarus is served by a branch of the See also:Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & St See also:Paul railway. It has agricultural and dairying See also:industries, but little or no manufacturing interests. It had its origin in a colonizing experiment made by the See also:canton of Glarus, See also:Switzerland in 1845. Agents sent by the canton See also:chose the site of New Glarus largely because the rocky slopes of the valley suggested their Alpine See also:home. The advance party then set about constructing houses and sent for the colonists; and some two See also:hundred men, See also:women and See also:children started from Glarus in See also:April 1845 under two leaders chosen by popular See also:vote; misreading their directions the party got by See also:mistake to St See also:Louis, whence they proceeded up the See also:Mississippi to See also:Galena and thence overland to their new home. To all intents and purposes they were an See also:independent See also:people. They expected to be and were self-sustaining, and for a See also:generation or more retained their exclusiveness to a remarkable degree. They brought with them a " See also:form of See also:government " See also:drawn up by the Cantonal See also:Council of Glarus and providing in See also:great detail for a See also:system of See also:schools, for what was practically a See also:state See also:church (Reformed Lutheran) supported by See also:tithes, for a system of poor See also:relief, for a system of courts, and for a set of town See also:officers elected on a limited See also:property See also:franchise. This " form " was to be amended and new See also:laws were to be added, as circumstances should require, in a town-See also:meeting in which the essential features of the. See also:referendum were observed.

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original See also:plan provided also for an equitable See also:distribution of See also:land so as to give to each See also:head of a See also:family pasture, See also:timber and See also:farm lands. With such adjustments as were found necessary for co-ordination with the town and county governments of Wisconsin, it remains practically the same to this See also:day. The village and town still have an Old lWorld aspect, and the See also:architecture, customs, See also:style of See also:dress and See also:language of the pioneers still persist to a great degree. A famous organization is the New Glarus See also:William Tell See also:Club of sharpshooters. The village owns its See also:water-See also:works and its electric See also:lighting plant.

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