----Source: 1918 History of Clark County, Wisconsin

ALFRED D. HUNT, in giving his. Reminiscences, says: "I came with my parents from Lodi, N. Y., to Dorchester, Wis., in 1874. At that time, two miles north from where the village now is, there was a section house on the railroad. The village of Dorchester was started in 1874 on land owned by the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company. The first residence building was log shanty on the homestead of Louis Robbins. My father helped him to build it. The first store was built by Dan Miltimore, and was run by him on a small scale. He also had the post office and was depot agent in 1874. The first sawmill was the Evans mill, and the second, the Sands mill, which stood where the present mill now stands. There was not a foot of road, nothing but heavy timber, and our supplies came in by the railroad. My parents came first to Colby and from there to Dorchester by ox team and jumper, following the railroad tote road. Father worked for the railroad company and bought wood and ties for them for several years. The village, or town, was started for the purpose of supplying the lumber camp and did not amount to much until about twenty years ago. A good many settlers came in, but they all had to work in the woods during the winter in order to live. The country was very wild and all kinds of game were plentiful, and father used to shoot deer from the door of his house. The first hotel was built the year we came here by S. Hugaboom, an Oshkosh man. Flour was $10 a barrel, and boots $10 a pair. Some people used to bring flour and other supplies from Colby on their backs. I went to school in the log schoolhouse taught by Miss Cox. I attended there until the second schoolhouse was built, about 1880. This was used until the new building was erected. A big cyclone passed two miles north of the village after it was started. In 1905 a cyclone passed through this section from Curtiss and did considerable damage. It killed some people and stock in Curtiss, destroying the Curtiss church and many barns."