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Doty invents Madison
1836
Capitol Square, Madison
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James Duane Doty bought a thousand acres of empty isthmus, drew a city plan, named it for a president dead two months, and handed territorial legislators cheap lots in it. They voted his non-existent town the capital that November.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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