[9] Queen Anne style mansions along Edgerton's Washington Street testify to the wealth and prominence some merchants once had.

The 1890s Carlton Hotel, once located on Henry Street, also once served as an additional reminder of the tobacco industry's influence.

Although built by a brewing firm,[10] the hotel (which burned to the ground in the 1990s) was frequented by tobacco buyers and sellers.

In 1886, Catholic parents in Edgerton protested the reading of the King James Bible in the village schools because they considered the Douay version the correct translation.

[12] Seventy years later, when the U.S. Supreme Court banned prayer from the public schools in 1963, the Edgerton Bible case was one of the precedents cited by Justice William Brennan.

[13][14] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.14 square miles (10.72 km2), all of it land.

[15] None of the area is covered with water, except for Saunders Creek, although the city is within a five-minute drive of Lake Koshkonong.

The community celebration includes live music, food, family entertainment, a craft fair, an open-air market, living history events and demonstrations, tobacco demonstrations, citywide rummage sales, a men's slow pitch softball tournament, book sales, a parade, and a car show.

[18][19] The Sterling North Book and Film Festival, which takes place annually the last weekend in September, brings together authors and filmmakers with the community.

[28] A log cabin from the old Bogart site and the factory warehouse where Pauline Pottery was first made in Edgerton still survive.