Editing Dane County, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
Dane County was formed in 1836 as a territorial county and organized in 1839.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/WI_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm| title=Wisconsin: Individual County Chronologies| website=Wisconsin Atlas of Historical County Boundaries| publisher=[[Newberry Library]]| date=2007| access-date=August 13, 2015| archive-date=April 14, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414132220/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/WI_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm| url-status=dead}}</ref> It was named after [[Nathan Dane]], a Massachusetts delegate to the [[Congress of the Confederation]] who helped carve Wisconsin out of the [[Northwest Territory]].<ref>"[https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Newspaper/BA9479 Early Wisconsin]". ''The Milwaukee Journal'', September 26, 1896.</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ| title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States| publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]]| last=Gannett| first=Henry| year=1905| pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n98 99]}}</ref>  Dane County was settled in the 1840s by settlers from [[New England]].<ref>{{cite book| title=The Red Book of the Sun Prairie Methodist Episcopal Church| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zGbUAAAAMAAJ&q=Wisconsin+%22settled+by+immigrants+from+New+England%22&pg=PT21| editor-first=Charles Marcus| editor-last=Starkweather| publisher=C. M. Starkweather| year=1898}}</ref>