Holy Cross, Wisconsin

{{short description|Unincorporated community in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin}}

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Holy Cross is an unincorporated community located in the town of Belgium in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.{{cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=5284 |title=Holy Cross, Ozaukee Co. |website=www.wisconsinhistory.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611162210/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=5284 |archive-date=2011-06-11}}{{cite web |url=https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/vitalrecords/cvtlist.pdf |title=Wisconsin Cities, Villages, Townships and Unincorporated Places Listing |author=Wisconsin State Vital Records Office }} Holy Cross is located just east of Fredonia and southwest of Belgium.

Holy Cross, like nearby Dacada, was settled by immigrants from Luxembourg in the 1840s and 1850s. The name for the community comes from the former Catholic parish of Holy Cross, which was formed in the area in 1845.T.J. Sullivan, The Catholic Church in Wisconsin. Catholic Historical Publishing Company, 1896. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wiozauke/churches/HolyCross.html{{Cite book |last=Wisconsin |first=State Historical Society of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FEEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA377&dq= |title=Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin |date=1898 |publisher=The Society |language=en}}