Editing Cadiz, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
The earliest white settlers of the area were from the lead mining regions of the state, farther west. The first settler of Cadiz was George Lot, originally from the State of Pennsylvania, who settled on the southeast quarter of section 36 in 1834. He came directly from the mines, where he had been previous to the [[Black Hawk War]]. He stayed for a short time, then moved on to nearby [[Winslow, Illinois]]. Soon after Lot came ex-miners [[William Boyles]] (who would later name Green County) from [[Indiana]], and Stephen G. Hale, Nicholas Hale and Bennett Nolan from Illinois.<ref>[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.HistGreen1884 ''History of Green County, Wisconsin. together with biographies of representative citizens. history of Wisconsin, embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, and a brief account of its territorial and state governments'' Springfield, Illinois: Union Pub. Co., 1884; p. 744]</ref> Abner Van Sant and his son-in-law, John Deniston, built a sawmill in the area in 1843, and laid out the community a few years later. Cadiz was named for a city in Spain.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Callary|first1=Edward|title=Place Names of Wisconsin|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|location=Madison, WI|isbn=978-0-299-30964-0|page=46}}</ref>