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Dousman is located at (43.014801, −88.472564 [10]According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.68 square miles (6.94 km 2), of which, 2.58 square miles (6.68 km 2) of it is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km 2) is water.
Hercules Louis Dousman (August 4, 1800 – September 12, 1868) was a fur trader and real-estate speculator who played a large role in the economic development of frontier Wisconsin. He is often called Wisconsin's first millionaire.
The Dousman Hotel, is a historic hotel located at the intersection of Fisher Street and River Road in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. The hotel was built in 1864–65 to serve railroad and steamboat travelers coming to the city. The hotel was named after Hercules L. Dousman, an early Wisconsin fur trader, land speculator and millionaire.
Although the Dousman family had left the Villa Louis estate by 1913, they continued to own the property. Over the following decades, they rented the mansion for use as a boarding school, among other things. In the 1930s, two of Louis Dousman's children, Violet and Virginia, began to restore the estate to its 19th-century appearance.
Located in southeastern Wisconsin, the district comprises much of the west half of Waukesha County and parts of eastern Jefferson County. It includes the city of Delafield and the villages of Dousman, Eagle, North Prairie, Oconomowoc Lake, Palmyra, Sullivan, and Wales. [2]
Lad Lake is a social service agency with programs for historically underserved youth in Dousman, Wisconsin, United States.Established in 1902 in Dousman, thirty miles west of Milwaukee, on 367 acres of land, the residential campus was originally known as the Wisconsin Home and Farm School.