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About Watertown, WI

Watertown is a Jefferson County city about an hour west of Milwaukee via I-94, sitting along the Rock River in southeastern Wisconsin's farm country. Highway 26 runs north-south through downtown, while Highway 18 from Madison provides the main east-west connection. The city was home to America's first kindergarten, started by a German immigrant in 1856.

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Watertown, WI is in United States, at 43.189, -88.728 - about 31 km east of Marshall, WI.

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The closest airport to Watertown, WI is Dane County Regional Truax Field, 65 km (about 51 min by car).

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