Tunnel City, WI

Tunnel City is an unincorporated census-designated place in Greenfield, Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States, named after the train tunnel through a hill just to the west of town. The 2020 census counted 100 residents. This first tunnel was built by the La Crosse and Milwaukee railroad, and used by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. The first tunnel was completed in 1858 as the last segment of the rail route from Milwaukee to La Crosse. A newcomer can read Tunnel City through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Tunnel City comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines.