WILL PRIDE OF POTOSI ONCE AGAIN FLOW FROM STORIED OLD BREWERY? SOME LOCAL DREAMERS ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)(ON WISCONSIN)(Column)

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | January 13, 2002 | Copyright

Byline: Susan Smith

POTOSI -- Every interesting place has a claim to fame, and this village in farthest southwest Wisconsin has two.

The sign where you pull off the Great River Road announces that Potosi has "The Longest Main Street in the World." The brag dates to the 1950s, when "Ripley's Believe It or Not" featured Potosi as having the longest Main Street without a cross street.

I don't know if the record holds, but Main Street here is still a three-mile, ear-popping run from the ridge top down to where it ends in a gravel road on a spit ...

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