----Source: Courtesty of the Greenwood, WI Public Library



FLAG POLE AGAIN ERECTED AT SCHOOL

May 31, 1928

Some dismay was created recently when the members of the school board discovered that the flag pole on the school grounds, which is claimed to be the tallest in Wisconsin, was rotting and had to be felled.

About a year ago the board had the pole inspected closely and the decay was found to be in progress about one-third of the way around the base. The wood was treated to stop the decay and guy wires were strung to keep the pole from striking the
buildings if a storm should snap it off.

Last week the pole was felled and about 10 feet were cut from the base end. On Saturday the pole was again erected and this time was placed a little west from its former location.

The flag pole is a Douglas fir and was 150 feet high before it was taken down. It was shipped from Seattle, Wash. as the gift of a former mayor of the city.

The Charles Miller family lived in this vicinity until they moved to Washington about 26 years ago, to go into the lumber business. Lynn, a son, picked out a tall fir and waited until he had a lumber shipment bound for Withee, Wis. Then when the time came to load the pole on top of three flat cars of lumber, it was too long, so Miller had to cut it in two so that it could be spliced and sent it along.

Although the pole was a gift, the city had to pay 300 to have it hauled the 13 miles from Withee on wagons and set in place. A six-foot slab of stone was embedded nine feet under ground as a base and the pole was mounted on this and set in solid
concrete. It was topped by a spread eagle weather vane two and one-half feet high. Although the pole is now somewhat shorter it still remains to be one of the tallest in the state and should stand for 25 years more.

BIRDSEYE VIEW OF GREENWOOD, WI (Circa 1914)
Provided by the Greenwood, WI Public Library
Homes: 1. Schofield 2. Sheets 3. White 4. Hendren 5. Burch 6. Volk
6a. Volk's Barn 7. Varney Home 8. Tallest Flag Pole in Wisconsin,
(donated by the Charles' Miller Family of Washington State).
9. Greenwood High School (Opened in 1914.)