Green Grove Township
Clark County, Wisconsin

"Clark County, Illustrated" by Saterlee, Tifft & Marsh, 1890
Transcribed by Robert Lipprandt.

Green Grove Township formerly comprised the Western half of the township of Colby, but in the year 1886 it was organized into a separate town, and now consists of one township, which is located in the Northeastern part of the county, and is described as township number twenty - eight, range one West.

The town is now being settled quite rapidly, but until within the past few years the population has been very small. When the Wisconsin Central road passed through the town of Colby, six miles distant, settlers commenced coming to that town, and it was several years before the settlement reached back into this town.

Later the Wisconsin Central Company built a line of road West from Abbotsford to Eau Claire, which passed within a mile of Green Grove. The town then began to be settled from the East and North, and since that time, many settlers have taken advantage of the cheap prices of the lands, and have secured tracts of it covered with valuable timber, and which has a rich productive soil. The town is settled chiefly with industrious, hard working Germans, whose labor will, in the course of a few years, make Green Grove one of the most wealthy and productive towns in the county.

There are now about two hundred inhabitants in the town, and there is much unoccupied land, which is on the market.

The surface of the town is somewhat rolling. The soil is similar to that of the surrounding towns, being very fertile and productive. There is still a large amount of valuable timber standing, the most of which is hardwood. Formerly almost one third of the surface of the town was covered with pine timber, but much of this has been cut and removed so that the most of the timber left standing is hardwood.

A cheese factory has been established in the town, and several of the farmers are turning their attention to dairying.

There are three school districts in the town and a portion of three joint districts, all of which are supplied with good school buildings and other school apparatus.

The town has no railroad through it, but as has before been described, the Wisconsin Central road is but one mile North of the town.

There is a post office in the Eastern part of the town, which is at the end of the stage line which runs from Colby.

The people in the Northern part of the town are supplied with mail from the village of Curtiss, which is on the railroad a short distance North of the town line in the town of Hoard.

There is no village in the town. At the Green Grove post office is a general store, which together with the post office is run by Emil Meyers. There is also a hotel at the same place.

The growth of the town can not be shown in figures, as the town has been organized since the census of 1885, but there are probably almost two hundred people in the town at the present time. Much work has been done on the highways throughout the town, and the roads are in the most excellent condition considering the length of time the settlements have been made.

The officers of the town for 1890 are as follows: Chairman, William Sommer; clerk, Henry Meyers; treasurer Herman Laub; assessor, August Lulloff.