This is a stirring village on the Wisconsin River, eighteen miles above Stevens Point. Including the mill hands there are 200 inhabitants.

It is a mill village. The town is not yet all taken up to farming, but as the lumber is cut up, it will be promptly under cultivation.

Stark Bros. have a saw mill near the village cutting 2,000,000 feet a year.

Wallace & Redford’s mill is two miles south, and cuts 6,000,000 feet a year.

John Redfield’s mill is three miles north, and cuts 3,000,000 feet a year.

The village proper has fifteen dwellings, a hotel, store, and Catholic Church supplied from Wausau.

Leonard Guenther settled here in 1848, when it was the center of a very valuable pine tract, some of the forties yielding 1,800,000 feet.

Guenther Brothers, sons of the old gentleman, who died in 1876, keep the hotel, store and post-office.

Transcribed from page 570 "History of Northern Wisconsin", by History Buffs.

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