Editing Cashton, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
The settlement began in 1854 when Thompson Hazen established an inn at a nearby bend in the [[stagecoach]] road from [[Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin|Prairie du Chien]] to [[Black River Falls, Wisconsin]]. The location was then known as ''Hazen's Corners''. In 1879, the [[Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad]] built a [[branch line]] from [[Sparta, Wisconsin|Sparta]] to [[Viroqua, Wisconsin]] through the area, drawing additional settlers. The same year, local merchant William H. H. Cash spearheaded construction of a railroad depot and had the village platted, renaming it ''Cashton''.<ref>{{cite book |title=History of Northern Wisconsin |date=1881 |publisher=Western Historical Company |location=Chicago |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofnorther00west |pages=641–642 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Randolph A. |title=History of Monroe County, Wisconsin, past and present : including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county [microform] |date=1912 |publisher=C.F. Cooper & Co. |location=Chicago |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmonroec00richrich |pages=64–65,398–399}}</ref>

The rural area around Cashton began to attract many [[Amish]] farmers in the late 1960s, and it is now the largest Amish settlement in Wisconsin.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wisconsin Amish |url=http://amishamerica.com/wisconsin-amish/#cashton |website=amishamerica.com |access-date=July 31, 2022}}</ref>