Calvary, Wisconsin is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in the town of Marshfield, in

Fond du Lac County Fond du Lac County () is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 104,154. Its county seat is Fond du Lac. The county was created in the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and later organized in 1844. Fond d ...

Wisconsin Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...

. The community was originally known locally as Calvary Station since the community was built around the railroad depot for

Mount Calvary Calvary ( or ) or Golgotha () was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where, according to Christianity's four canonical gospels, Jesus was crucified. Since at least the early medieval period, it has been a destination for pilgrimage. ...

. The depot for the Sheboygan-Fond du Lac Railroad needed to be built about 1 mile (2 km) north of the community because of the grade needed for trains to climb the

Niagara Escarpment The Niagara Escarpment is an approximately discontinuous, arc-shaped but generally northward-facing escarpment, or cuesta, in Canada and the United States. The escarpment begins south of Lake Ontario and circumscribes the top of the Great Lake ...

. It is located at the intersection of County Highways WW and WH (which was named

Wisconsin Highway 149 State Trunk Highway 149 (Highway 149, STH-149 or WIS 149) was a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It ran through of Manitowoc, Calumet, and Fond du Lac counties. History In 1923, WIS 149 ran from WIS 57 (today ...

before the highway was decommissioned in the 2000s).1973 Wisconsin Department of Transportation Official Highway Map It is located in the heart of the

Blue Sky Green Field Wind Farm Blue Sky Green Field Wind Energy Center is a wind farm in northeast Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. The facility is located in the towns of Calumet and Marshfield. Owned by We Energies, it became the largest operating installation using win ...

in Wisconsin's Holyland Region.

Images

File:CalvaryWisconsinPanorama.jpg, Looking north at Calvary with the

turbines File:CalvaryWisconsinSignWIS149.jpg, Looking west at the welcome sign along County WH

References

Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin {{FondduLacCountyWI-geo-stub