Editing Cuba City, Wisconsin (section)

== History ==
The history of the city began in 1836, when John Amie Merle and Mathais Comstock purchased {{convert|160 |acres}} of land from the American Government in Grant County. The first structure in the community was erected in 1846 by Jack Deboard. Deboard is considered the first settler in Cuba City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cubacity.org/city_info_town_history.php|title=City History|publisher=Cuba City, Wisconsin|access-date=July 25, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815093637/http://cubacity.org/city_info_town_history.php|archive-date=August 15, 2012}}</ref>

The name "Yuba City" was finally picked after a dispute about the name of the new village, but after discovering another location had already been given that name, a new name, "Cuba City," was selected.<ref>[http://www.cubacity.org/city_info_town_history.php History of Cuba City] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815093637/http://cubacity.org/city_info_town_history.php |date=August 15, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Company|first=Chicago and North Western Railway|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA61|year=1908|page=61}}</ref>

The community incorporated as a village in Grant County only in 1894.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Grant County, Wisconsin: Including Its Civil, Political, Geological, Mineralogical, Archaeological and Military History, and a History of the Several Towns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pgUrAQAAMAAJ|year=1900|page=741 | last1=Holford | first1=Castello N. }}</ref> The village incorporated as a city in 1925<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.city-data.com/city/Cuba-City-Wisconsin.html|title=Cuba City, Wisconsin|publisher= City-Data.com |access-date=July 25, 2012}}</ref> and annexed into Lafayette County between 1960 and 1970.