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Kewaskum, located 45 miles north of Milwaukee and 20 miles south of Fond du Lac on Highway 45, is known as the Gateway to the Northern Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest. Kewaskum is a village in Washington and Fond du Lac counties in Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,004 at the 2010 census. All of this population resided in the Washington County portion of the village. The village is mostly surrounded by the Town of Kewaskum.

Our quaint little Village is situated on the banks of the Milwaukee River with the Trail Head for a portion of the Ice Age Trail located just south of the Village limits near Sunburst Ski area. The Eisenbahn Trail, a 25 mile stretch of hiking, biking and snowmobile trail, formerly an abandoned railroad bed, starts in West Bend, runs through the Village of Kewaskum and continues north ending in Eden.

Kewaskum was the leader of a group of Potawatomi Native Americans who lived in Washington County in the 1840s.[6] He was friendly with the early settlers, including future Wisconsin state senator Densmore Maxon. He died sometime between 1847 and 1850. In 1849, the early settlers named the Town of Kewaskum (and later the village) in his honor. In the Potawatomi language, Kewaskum means “turning back on his tracks” or “retracing his steps.”