Madison ( Amtrak station ) was Madison County's only active railroad station until that point.

Madison County's nickname is the Mountaineers and have two main logos.

Approximately 3 of Madison County's 18 fatal crashes in 2006 and 2007 occurred on interstates.

Madison County's public educational system consists of one early college high school, one traditional high school, located in the county seat of Marshall, one middle school, and four elementary schools.

By 1910, it had more than 6, 000 people, comprising roughly one-third of Madison County's population of 19, 101.

Madison Heights is part of Oakland County's Automation Alley.

Pope was successful in petitioning the territorial legislature to select his land as the site of Madison County's seat of government.

The town of Port Madison became Kitsap County's first county seat, but after the economic depression of the 1890s closed the mill, the seat was relocated and Port Madison became a ghost town.

* University of Wisconsin – Madison has one of the largest programs in History of Science, Medicine and Technology, with particular strength in medical history, history of biology, history of science and religion, and environmental history.

As of July 1, 2011, Madison had a population of 236, 901. making it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 81st largest in the United States.

Madison shares borders with its largest suburb, Sun Prairie, and three other communities, Middleton, McFarland and Fitchburg.

* Madison, Wisconsin, the largest city by the name and the state capital of Wisconsin

Madison County was one of the largest cotton-producing counties in the state, and textile mills operated around the county.

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Madison County were English 50. 2 %, African 22. 78 %, Scots-Irish 8. 71 %, Irish 4. 3 %, Scottish 4. 12 %, and Welsh 2. 9 %

Throughout the early history of the state, Madison was one of the leading cities competing with Vincennes and later New Albany to be the largest city in the state.

Founded in 1848, University of Wisconsin – Madison is the largest university in the state, and the flagship of the UW System, with a total enrollment of over 41, 000 students, of whom approximately 30, 000 are undergraduates.

Madison's largest employer is Intergraph, a computer software company based in Madison.

Currently, Madison has one of the largest historic districts in the state of Georgia, and tourists from all over the world come to marvel at the antebellum architecture of the homes.

Hostess Brands, Inc .— formerly Interstate Bakeries Corporation ( IBC )— is the largest wholesale baker and distributor of bakery products in the United States, and is the owner of the Hostess, Wonder Bread, Nature's Pride, Dolly Madison, Butternut Breads, and Drake's brands.

The largest and most accessible recreation area in Madison County is the Silver Mines Recreation Area, which is part of the Mark Twain National Forest.

The largest single employer in Madison is the Tyson Fresh Meats pork-processing plant, with 1, 200 full-time employees.

The town is home to the Madison Boulder (), the largest known glacial erratic in New England, and among the largest in the world.

Madison was home to one of the largest and most recognized Chautauquas, located on the northern shores of Lake Madison, between 1891 and until the mid 1930's.

Jackson is the county seat of Madison County, and its largest city.

Portage is the largest city outside of Dane County in the Madison Metropolitan Area.

Based on property value, Pleasant Prairie ranks as the fifth largest manufacturing municipality in the state of Wisconsin, exceeded only by Milwaukee, Green Bay, Madison, and Menomonee Falls.

Robinson defeated Zivic in front of 20, 551 at Madison Square Garden — one of the largest crowds in the arena to that date.

The Madison Square Garden Corporation, the largest promotional company in the sport at the time, even attempted to get a legal injunction against a Braddock-Louis fight ( Louis was not on their roster ).

During this period, Kansas became a major headlining act and sold out the largest venues available to rock bands at the time, including New York's Madison Square Garden.

At a site simply named " The Sinks " in Sinks Canyon State Park, the river flows into a cave in a formation known as the Madison Limestone, and then rises again a half-mile down the canyon in a placid pool.

Madison County is bounded by beginning at a point on Big Black River, where the same crosses the center line in township twelve, range three, east ; thence east to the old Choctaw boundary line ; thence north on said boundary line to the center line of township twelve, range five, east ; thence through the center of said township twelve, range five, east, to the range line between townships five and six, east ; thence south on said range line to Pearl River ; thence down said river, with its meanderings, to the line between townships six and seven, north ; thence west on said township line to the basis meridian of the Choctaw survey ; thence north on said meridian line to the line between townships seven and eight, north ; thence west on said township line to the line between ranges two and three, west ; thence north on said range line to Big Black River ; thence up said river, with its meanderings, to the beginning.

River commerce was always an important part of the local economy: across the river from Milton is the city of Madison, Indiana, and a river ferry between the two settlements was started in 1804.

Also west of Fredericktown but still within Madison County is the Silver Mines Recreation Area, which is situated along a steep river gorge of the St. Francis River.

It is pleasantly situated on the south side of the Neenah river, 11 miles west from Oshkosh, and 75 miles northeast from Madison.

North of Madison at Portage, the river turns to the west, flowing through Wisconsin's hilly Western Upland and joining the Mississippi approximately 3 miles ( 4. 8 km ) south of Prairie du Chien.

Traffic crosses the river on the Madison Avenue Bridge.

The lower Jefferson opens up again into a meandering, braided river from Sappington bridge approximately 24 miles downstream to its confluence with the Madison River.

The Madison is a Class I river in Montana for the purposes of access for recreational use.

Downstream of Asheville, the river proceeds north through Madison County, where it flows through its county seat of Marshall.

Between Clays Ferry in Madison County and Frankfort, the river passes through the Kentucky River Palisades, a series of dramatic steep gorges approximately in length.

With the American forces defeated and in retreat President James Madison and Secretary Jones had fled the capitol and made their way up the Potomac river and remained in hiding in the countryside.

In the meantime President Madison and the Secretary returned to Washington, but by August 27, the British under the command of Captain James Gordon advanced on the capitol a second time, making their approach by way of the Potomac River with two frigates and a number of smaller vessels, reaching Fort Washington, twelve miles down river from the capitol.

The river rises in Lincoln County, Tennessee, and flows south into Madison County, Alabama, where most of the river ' swatershed ( 342 sq.

For the twenty miles south of Interstate 20 between Delhi and Tallulah, the river winds its way through the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge ( in Madison, Franklin, and Tensas parishes ), established in 1980 " for the preservation and development of environmental resources " about the river.

A red carpet was rolled out to a river to welcome the arrival of United States president James Madison in 1821.

Here, the river downgrades to a creek as the route turns eastward toward Madison County.

They meet at Madison in Boone County and the river then flows generally northward, past the towns of Danville and Julian.