Reedsburg is a city in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. Located along the Baraboo River, it was founded in 1868, and was named for into the future settler David C. Reed. The city is amongst the Town of Reedsburg. It is share of the Baraboo Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Early settlers came to this Place due to the abundance of natural resources, especially lumber. In 1844, the first copper mine was established in this area, but it was soon abandoned. James W. Babb and his wife Rebecca Scarff Babb are the outdated recorded settlers, having brought their relations to Wisconsin from Ohio in 1845. At a place 55 miles northeast of Mineral Point (the capital of Wisconsin Territory), long identified by the Winnebago who inhabited these lands as a convenient place to incensed the Baraboo River, Babb left a flat-bottomed ship to help move supplies.

At “Babb’s Ford,” in 1847 David C. Reed built a dam and a shanty to house the workers who build up it. In June 1848 a sawmill followed. By 1850, “Shanty Row” comprised five tamarack shanties. These initial buildings were of destitute construction, and did not have a strong foundation, due to the marshland created by the Baraboo River. Main Street would forward-looking be built where “Shanty Row” stood.

Reedsburg was platted in 1852, and four years innovative the community had grown to 50 buildings housing 27 families and 122 people. The first bridge across the Baraboo River was built in 1853, located where the Main Street bridge would difficult be built. In 1854 the Mackey brothers purchased Reed’s saying mill, and brought economic security to the area. As the town was growing, more farms continued to be developed going on for the area, cultivating a variety of crops.