Loreta, Wisconsin

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Loreto, Wisconsin
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Loreto, Wisconsin
Coordinates: 43°20′44″N90°06′26″W / 43.34556°N 90.10722°W / 43.34556; -90.10722 Coordinates: 43°20′44″N90°06′26″W / 43.34556°N 90.10722°W / 43.34556; -90.10722
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Wisconsin.svg  Wisconsin
County Sauk
Elevation
355 m (1,165 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 608
GNIS feature ID1577708 [1]

Loreto is an unincorporated community in the town of Bear Creek, Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. [1] The community center was once located on Highway G in Town 10N Range3E in Section 14 with a public school in Joint District 9, a cheese factory, tavern, store and post office. The village name is sometimes spelled "Loretto" or "Loreta." The school closed in 1962 and the businesses no longer exist. Remaining is the Catholic parish of St. Patrick's with a brick church and rectory and parish cemetery. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] It was named after Loreto, Italy in 1900 by Rev. Felix Andrew Byrne, the postmaster at Loreto and pastor of St. Patrick Catholic Church. [7]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Loreta, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles. "Sauk Co." map Archived 2015-02-21 at the Wayback Machine . 2013. Accessed August 31, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Township 10. N., Range 3 E. - Loreto" in Sauk County 1921. Sauk County Publishing, 1921. Accessed August 31, 2013.
  4. ↑ The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., 1905, p. 618, p. 628. Accessed August 31, 2013.
  5. ↑ United States Official Postal Guide. Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon, 1906, p. 156, p. 554. Accessed August 31, 2013.
  6. ↑ H. E. Cole. Baraboo and Other Place Names in Sauk County, Wisconsin. Baraboo, WI: Baraboo News Publishing, 1912, p. 33. Accessed August 31, 2013. Accessed August 31, 2013.
  7. ↑ Cole, Harry Ellsworth (1918). A Standard History of Sauk County, Wisconsin. Lewis Publishing Company. p.  413.



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