Palmyra, Wisconsin: Difference between revisions

| official_name = Palmyra, Wisconsin

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'''Palmyra''' is a village in [[Jefferson County, Wisconsin|Jefferson County]], [[Wisconsin]], United States, along the [[Scuppernong River (Wisconsin)|Scuppernong River]]. It was named after the desert oasis city of [[Palmyra]], [[Syria]], due to its dry, sandy soil.<ref name="Crook 1899 https://archive.org/details/mineralwatersun00croogoog/page/n537 539">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/mineralwatersun00croogoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/mineralwatersun00croogoog/page/n537 539]|quote=Palmyra Springs Sanitarium and Mineral Springs.|title=The Mineral Waters of the United States and Their Therapeutic Uses: With an Account of the Various Mineral Spring Localities, Their Advantages as Health Resorts, Means of Access, Etc., to which is Added an Appendix on Potable Waters|last=Crook|first=James King|date=1899|publisher=Lea Brothers & Company|language=en}}</ref> The name means "sandy soil."<ref>''The Encyclopedia of Wisconsin,'' 1990.</ref> The population was 1,781719 at the 20102020 census.<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web| url=https://www.census.gov| title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Palmyra village, Wisconsin| publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]| accessdate=October 5, 2012}}</ref> The village is adjacent to the [[Palmyra (town), Wisconsin|Town of Palmyra]].

Palmyra was known for its [[mineral spring]]s. The [[Palmyra Springs Sanitarium]] was established in 1870, situated on what is known today as Lower Spring Lake. The sanitarium was a substantially built four-story brick structure containing spacious halls, wide verandas, and modern health and wellness accessories. The building contained facilities for the administration of various forms of electro-shock massage.<ref name="Crook 1899 https://archive.org/details/mineralwatersun00croogoog/page/n537 539"/> The rooms were spacious and luxuriously furnished, providing a variety of salt, shower, shampoo, natural mineral, Turkish, and Russian style baths. There was a large gymnasium, theater, music hall, billiard parlors, bowling alleys, archery and tennis courts. The surrounding forty-acre forest of native oaks was referred to as the Sanitarium Grove - today part of the Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest - which contained winding pedestrian paths and resting nooks. The sanitarium was one and half miles from a large spring known by name as the Aurelian Spring, the Great Geyser Spring, or the Big Blue Spring. It was 50 feet across, 38 feet deep, with a flow of clear crystal-blue water that was believed to have therapeutic remedial value.<ref name="Crook 1899 https://archive.org/details/mineralwatersun00croogoog/page/n537 539"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.palmyrahistorical.org/uploads/documents/12-2,%20Summer%20'90.pdf|title=Palmyra Historical Society 1990 Newsletter}}</ref> A dam and spillway was later built downstream of the Great Geyer Spring, forming what is today known as Blue Spring Lake. In 1924, the sanitarium became the Druggist's National Home, a home for aged and infirm druggists, but a few years later, interest in the therapeutic mineral treatments declined and the facility was closed. In the late 1950s, the building was raisedrazed and the land leveled.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php/Palmyra_Springs_Sanatorium|title=Palmyra Springs Sanatorium - Asylum Projects|website=www.asylumprojects.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-September 23, 2018}}</ref>

Palmyra is located at {{coord|42|52|37|N|88|35|13|W|type:city}} (42.87721, -88.587117).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdateaccess-date=April 23, 2011-04-23|date=February 12, 2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the village has a total area of {{convert|1.25|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|1.20|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is land and {{convert|0.05|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is water.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdateaccess-date=November 18, 2012-11-18|url-status=dead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/64vfLAeJ2?url=web/20120125061959/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|archivedatearchive-date=January 25, 2012-01-24}}</ref>

As of the [[census]]<ref name ="wwwcensusgov">{{cite web|title=U.S. Census website|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdateaccess-date=November 18, 2012-11-18}}</ref> of 2010, there were 1,781 people, 704 households, and 469 families residing in the village. The [[population density]] was {{convert|1484.2|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|1}}. There were 769 housing units at an average density of {{convert|640.8|/sqmi|/km2|1}}. The racial makeup of the village was 94.7% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.6% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.5% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.2% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 3.2% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 0.8% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 10.3% of the population.

There were 704 households, of which 35.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.0% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 33.4% were non-families. 26.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.04.

File:Palmyra Wisconsin Downtown Looking South WIS59NE.jpg|Looking southNortheast onat [[Wisconsin2nd Highway& 59]]taft.

Filefile:Palmyra Wisconsin Downtown Looking West WIS59.jpg|Looking west at downtown Palmyra

* Sanborn fire insurance maps: [http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/9198 1892] [http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/9042 1898] [http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/9201 1904] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140424045130/http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/9188 1919]