This opened it up for further settlement, which was achieved rapidly as a result of promotion of the city in eastern newspapers. Under the direction of Timothy Burns, lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, surveyor William Hood platted the village in 1851. More permanent development took place closer to Myrick's trading post, where stores, a hotel, and a post office were constructed during the 1840s.
Today a monument to that event stands atop the bluff, near the parking lot at a scenic overlook. On June 23, 1850, Father James Lloyd Breck of the Episcopal Church said the first Christian liturgy on top of Grandad Bluff. Although these settlers relocated away from the Midwest after just a year, the land they occupied near La Crosse continues to bear the name Mormon Coulee. Because of these advantages, a small village grew around Myrick's trading post in the 1840s.Ī small Mormon community settled at La Crosse in 1844, building several dozen cabins a few miles south of Myrick's post. In addition, the post was built at one of the few points along the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi River where a broad plain ideal for development existed between the river's bank and the tall bluffs that line the river valley. It was near the junction of the Black, La Crosse, and Mississippi Rivers. The spot Myrick chose to build his trading post proved ideal for settlement. The following year, Myrick relocated the post to the mainland prairie, partnering with H. In 1841, he built a temporary trading post on Barron Island (now called Pettibone Park), which lies just west of La Crosse's present downtown. As a result, he decided to establish a trading post upriver at the then still unsettled site of Prairie La Crosse. Myrick was disappointed to find that because many fur traders were already well-entrenched there, there were no openings for him in the trade. The first white settlement at La Crosse occurred in 1841 when Nathan Myrick, a New York native, moved to the village at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin to work in the fur trade. The name originated from the game with sticks that resembled a bishop's crozier or la crosse in French, which was played by Native Americans there. Pike recorded the location's name as "Prairie La Crosse". Zebulon Pike mounted an expedition up the Mississippi River for the United States. There is no written record of any visit to the site until 1805, when Lt. The first Europeans to see the region were French fur traders who traveled the Mississippi River in the late 17th century. La Crosse is a college town with over 20,000 students and home to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Viterbo University, and Western Technical College.Īrtists representation of La Crosse in 1867 Ī regional technology, medical, education, manufacturing, and transportation hub, companies based in the La Crosse area include Organic Valley, Logistics Health Incorporated, Kwik Trip, La Crosse Technology, City Brewing Company, and Trane. The city forms the core of and is the principal city in the La Crosse–Onalaska Metropolitan Area, which includes all of La Crosse County and Houston County, Minnesota, with a population of 139,627.
La Crosse's population as of the 2020 census was 52,680. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of La Crosse County. Mississippi River, Black River, La Crosse River
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