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Blue Mounds is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2020 census, the village had a population of 950. The village is adjacent to the Town of Blue Mounds, and is part of the Madison metropolitan area. Blue Mounds was named by French missionaries for the blueish hue of three nearby mounds.
Its first post office opened in 1881. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 855 to 948 (+11%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Blue Mounds, 1877–1880
Passages that mention Blue Mounds, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Dane County, Wisconsin ... preceded by a history of Wisconsin, statistics of the state, and an abstract of its laws and constitution and of the Constitution of the United States1880 · page 879Read the page →
History of Dane County, Wisconsin ... preceded by a history of Wisconsin, statistics of the state, and an abstract of its laws and constitution and of the Constitution of the United States1880 · page 611Read the page →
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New Bailroads in Dane County. — There are now two railroads in process of construction in the county by the Chicago & North-Western Company ; the Chicago & Tomah Railroad, and the Milwaukee & Madison Railway. The former enters the county from the west, in the extreme northwest corner of the town of Blue Mounds, runs through the northern part of that town and the town of Springdale, south to the center of the town of Verona, then northeast through the northwest corner of the town of Fitchburg, and terminates in the southeast corner of the town of Madison, where it strikes the Chicago & North-Western.
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Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns1877 · page 294Read the page →
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from the rest of the business world, had, during the first years of its existence, to suffer considerable inconvenience in relation to mail communications* The nearest postoffice was at Blue Mounds, where Ebenezer Brigham was postmaster; and to relieve the inhabitants of Perry and vicinity, somewhat, a sort of private mail communication was established by the citizens, by which they hired a person as mail carrier
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Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns1877 · page 238Read the page →
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passed through Madison going west, there was a daily mail through here, and sometiraes as many as four extra stages, all four-horse. There was a post office in this town as early as 1S2S, called the Blue Mounds post office. There is no East Blue Mounds post office, aa sometimes by mistake it is called. There is a West Blue Mounds in Iowa county, and a post office in this town called Monnt Horeb, making two post offices.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Blue Mounds, 1861 to 1981
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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