Platteville Wedding

Platteville is a city in Grant County, Wisconsin, which is in the southwest corner of the state. The population was 9,989 at the 2000 census.

The city is home to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. The school is known for its education, business, agricultural, and engineering colleges.

Platteville was a small farming and fur trading community along the Platte River, from which the town got its name. In the 1800s, lead was discovered in the area and a mining boom took the area by storm. During this boom, both a teacher's college and a separate mining college were founded. These two colleges later merged and became University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

After the lead mines went dry, the two colleges and the surrounding farming community kept Platteville from becoming a ghost town. Today, Platteville is mainly a college town and slowly developing into a white-collar city. The white-collar growth is due the growing number of engineering firms that are locating to Platteville to take advantage of UW-P's strong engineering program.