Pleasant Ridge, Grant County, Wisconsin

Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin
Ghost town
Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin
Coordinates: 42°49′52″N 90°48′47″W / 42.83111°N 90.81306°W / 42.83111; -90.81306
CountryUnited States
StateWisconsin
CountyGrant
Elevation
1,014 ft (309 m)

Pleasant Ridge is a former community in the Town of Beetown, Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. Settled c. 1850 by a family of formerly enslaved African Americans from Fauquier County, Virginia, Pleasant Ridge was a rural community with a significant population of formerly enslaved people and their descendants. The community declined in the 20th century, and the last African-American resident died in 1959.

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