News: Milan (Discontinue Rail Service - 1962)
Contact: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surname: Rietbrock
----Source: The Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, WI) 12/23/2015
Originally published in the Abbotsford Tribune, Thursday, December 27, 1962.
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission at Madison has granted a petition of the
Soo Line Railroad to withdraw agency service at the unincorporated village of
Milan in the town of Johnson.
The community, at one time known a Milano, was one of the first in western
Marathon County to have a railroad stop. It was on the Abbotsford-Eastern
Railroad Company, running from Abbotsford to Athens, during the time Fred
Rietbrock, a Milwaukee attorney, was inducing settlers to come to the area and
was beginning sawmill operations.
During the early days of the community, a sawmill and other industries were in
operation there. Shipments of major industries in the community at the present
are sent largely by truck.
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