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Edgerton is a city in Rock County, Wisconsin, with a small portion extending into Dane County — 5,799 of its 5,945 residents lived in Rock County at the 2020 census.

Edgerton's motto is "Tobacco City U.S.A.", earned when it was the center of southern Wisconsin's tobacco industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

At the tobacco trade's height, as many as 52 tobacco warehouses lined Edgerton's streets, and tobacco money built the Queen Anne-style mansions still standing along Washington Street.

The Pomeroy and Pelton Tobacco Warehouse downtown — later the T. W. Dickinson & Son Tobacco Warehouse — is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the oldest free-standing brick warehouse in Wisconsin.

Originally called Fulton Station, the city was named after 19th-century businessman Elisha W. Edgerton, or his brother Benjamin Hyde Edgerton, a civil engineer.

Edgerton gave its name to the landmark Edgerton Bible case: on March 18, 1890, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that reading the King James Bible in the public schools was sectarian instruction forbidden by the state constitution.

Seventy years later, the Edgerton Bible case was among the precedents Justice William Brennan cited when the U.S. Supreme Court banned prayer from public schools in 1963.

Edgerton is the hometown of author Sterling North, whose beloved children's book "Rascal" was set in the town — called "Brailsford Junction" in his books — and his childhood home is now the Sterling North Home and Museum.

Artist Pauline Jacobus made Edgerton a center of American art pottery after moving her studio there in 1888; her "Pauline Pottery" is now sought after by museums and galleries around the world.

The city celebrates its heritage each year with Tobacco Days, a community festival with a parade, car show, craft fair and tobacco demonstrations, and it hosts the Sterling North Book and Film Festival each fall.