Galesville
Population: 1481

Galesville is a city in Trempealeau County.

Trivia:

Galesville is named for its founder, Judge George Gale.

Hixton
Population: 433

Hixton is a village in Jackson County.

Trivia:

The Green Bay and Minnesota Railroad came through the area and opened a station at Hixton in 1873. The community was incorporated in 1920.

Holcombe  
Population: 228

Holcombe is located on the Chippewa River north-northeast of Cornell, in the town of Lake Holcombe.

Trivia:

Holcombe was founded in 1902. It was named for an acquaintance of a railroad official.

Hudson  
Population: 12719

Hudson is a city in St. Croix County.

Trivia:

The former greyhound racing track, St. Croix Meadows, is being redeveloped to include a hotel, dining, commercial office space, residential condos, a baseball field, an 18-hole mini golf course, and an indoor sports complex with two hockey rinks and a soccer arena.

Independence  
Population: 1336

Independence is a city in Trempealeau County.

Trivia:

The city of Independence owes its existence to a railroad and a man named David M. Kelly. Running almost parallel to the Trempealeau River is the Green Bay and Western Railroad, which is part of a line originally intended to run from Green Bay, Wisconsin to Wabasha, Minnesota. Kelly was an enthusiastic promoter of building a depot for the new line in Burnside.

After much disagreement and dispute over its location, Green Bay and Lake Pepin (as the company was then known) agreed to build a depot if $5,000 could be raised by the residents to finance construction. The money was raised, and Kelly bought the land for the depot in 1876. He founded a village on the land and named it Independence in honor of the nation's centennial of independence.
The village was incorporated in 1885 and became a city in 1942.