British Hollow, Wisconsin

Coordinates: 42°42′21″N 90°41′12″W / 42.70583°N 90.68667°W

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British Hollow, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 42°42′21″N 90°41′12″W / 42.70583°N 90.68667°W / 42.70583; -90.68667
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Grant
Town	Potosi
Elevation	251 m (823 ft)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code	608
GNIS feature ID	1562221^[1]

British Hollow is an unincorporated community originally located in the northeastern corner of the Town of Potosi, Grant County, Wisconsin, United States.^[1]

History

The first white residents were Terence Coyle and his family, who built a cabin there and were in permanent occupancy by the spring of 1832. In 1836, when Grant County was organized, it was made a separate precinct from the rest of Potosi, and named Pleasant Valley, a name which it still held at the time of the passage of the original (1848) Constitution of Wisconsin. It is unclear where the name "British Hollow" came from; it may have been to distinguish this settlement from the nearby Dutch Hollow, whose inhabitants were primarily Germans in origin.

At one time British Hollow (sometimes shortened to British) (which by 1848 also included most of Harrison, Grant County, Wisconsin and the north half of Paris, Grant County, Wisconsin townships) had several stores, a brewery (which went out of business about 1885), and a hotel. The old "precinct" was abolished by 1860; and by 1900, British Hollow had declined to one store (with post office), one church, one school, and three saloons.^[2]

Notes

^ ^a ^b "British Hollow, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ Holford, Castello N. History of Grant County, Wisconsin: Including Its Civil, Political, Geological, Mineralogical, Archaeological and Military History, and a History of the Several Towns Lancaster, Wisconsin: The Teller Print, 1900; pp. 135, 539-540

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County seat: Lancaster
Cities	Boscobel Cuba City‡ Fennimore Lancaster Platteville
Villages	Bagley Bloomington Blue River Cassville Dickeyville Hazel Green‡ Livingston‡ Montfort‡ Mount Hope Muscoda‡ Patch Grove Potosi Tennyson Woodman
Towns	Beetown Bloomington Boscobel Cassville Castle Rock Clifton Ellenboro Fennimore Glen Haven Harrison Hazel Green Hickory Grove Jamestown Liberty Lima Little Grant Marion Millville Mount Hope Mount Ida Muscoda North Lancaster Paris Patch Grove Platteville Potosi Smelser South Lancaster Waterloo Watterstown Wingville Woodman Wyalusing
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Former communities	Pleasant Ridge Sinnipee
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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