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Erin, Wisconsin
Summary
Erin is a town in Washington County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,664 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Thompson is located in Erin.
Erin is home to Erin Hills golf course which hosted the 2017 U.S. Open golf tournament.
Until the 1830s, the Erin area was home to Menominee and Potawatomi Native Americans Native American oral traditions claimed that Jesuit missionaries were the first white people to arrive in the area, possibly as early as the 1670s. Some historians have claimed that Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet stopped in the Erin area on their 1673–1674 journey to find the Rock River and planted a wooden cross on the summit of Holy Hill. However, no one has been able to determine with certainty who the first explorers to visit the area were, because Jesuit accounts often do not describe landmarks with specific enough details for historians to draw definitive conclusions.
The Potawatomi surrendered their claims to the land the United States Federal Government in 1833 through the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, which (after being ratified in 1835) required them to leave Wisconsin by 1838. While many Potawatomis moved west of the Mississippi River to Kansas, some chose to remain, and were referred to as "strolling Potawatomi" in contemporary documents because many of them were migrants who subsisted by squatting on their ancestral lands, which were now owned by white settlers. Itinerant Native Americans lived in Washington County into the late 19th century, when many of them gathered in northern Wisconsin to form the Forest County Potawatomi Community.
The Wisconsin Territorial Legislature created the Town of Erin on January 16, 1846. It was possibly named for Erin, the romantic, Hiberno-English name for Ireland, from which many many of the early settlers had emigrated. As recently as 1940, nearly ninety percent of the town's population claimed Irish descent.
Since its founding, Erin has been a primarily agricultural community, with dairy farming playing an important role in the local economy.
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