Editing Madison, Wisconsin (section)

===Expansion===
[[File:Pinckney St., Madison, Wisconsin LCCN93500418.jpg|thumb|Pinckney Street, 1901]]
[[File:Detroit Photographic Company (0894).jpg|thumb|The third [[Wisconsin State Capitol]], which burned down in 1904]]

The cornerstone for the [[Wisconsin State Capitol|Wisconsin capitol]] was laid in 1837, and the legislature first met there in 1838. On October 9, 1839, [[Kintzing Prichett]] registered the [[plat]] of Madison at the registrar's office of the then-territorial [[Dane County]].<ref name="platted1839">{{Cite book |title=Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin |publisher=E.E. Hale & Co. |year=1858 |volume=6 |location=Beloit |page=215 |chapter=Vilas vs. Reynolds |access-date=July 24, 2011 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qf4aAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA215 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316154927/http://books.google.com/books?id=Qf4aAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA215 |archive-date=March 16, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Madison was incorporated as a village in 1846, with a population of 626. When Wisconsin became a state in 1848, Madison remained the capital, and the following year it became the site of the University of Wisconsin (now [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]). The [[Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad]] (a predecessor of the [[Milwaukee Road]]) connected to Madison in 1854. Madison incorporated as a city in 1856, with a population of 6,863, leaving the unincorporated remainder as a separate [[Town of Madison, Wisconsin|Town of Madison]].<ref>[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=header;pview=hide;id=WI.MadDane ''Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724115343/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=header;pview=hide;id=WI.MadDane |date=July 24, 2014 }}, Madison: Wm. J. Park, 1877, pp. 543–558.</ref> The original capitol was replaced in 1863 and the second capitol burned in 1904. The current capitol was built between 1906 and 1917.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wisconsin State Capitol Tour |url=http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/core/wisconsin_state_capitol_tour.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527102024/http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/core/wisconsin_state_capitol_tour.html |archive-date=May 27, 2007 |access-date=May 24, 2007 |publisher=State of Wisconsin}}</ref>

During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Madison served as a center of the [[Union Army]] in Wisconsin. The intersection of Milwaukee, East Washington, Winnebago, and North Streets is known as Union Corners because a tavern there was the last stop for Union soldiers before heading to fight the Confederates. [[Camp Randall]], on the west side of Madison, was built and used as a training camp, a military hospital, and a prison camp for captured [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] soldiers. After the war ended, the Camp Randall site was absorbed into the University of Wisconsin and [[Camp Randall Stadium]] was built there in 1917. In 2004 the last vestige of active military training on the site was removed when the stadium renovation replaced a firing range used for [[ROTC]] training.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}