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New Forest County Listing on the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places

Posted by Michelle in Website Additions

According to a news release published today by the Wisconsin State Historical Society, Minertown in the Town of Carter, Forest County was recently added to the State Register of Historic Places, Wisconsin’s official listing of state properties determined to be significant to Wisconsin’s heritage.

Minertown, Town of Carter, Forest County

Vernon County brothers Wilbur and Henry T. Miner, with the assistance of their sister Mary, established Minertown in 1899, soon after the Chicago and North Western Railroad expanded into Forest County. They purchased a 4,000-acre tract of hardwood-covered land from the railroad and constructed a sawmill. The settlement began with a boarding house and company store and grew to include a planing mill, roundhouse, depot, store, blacksmith shop, cook shanty, several small four-room houses and a barn. Many of the original settlers came with the Miners from the Kickapoo Valley in Vernon County while others came from Kentucky.

Until 1922, when the Oconto Company acquired the facility, the mills produced saw lumber for at least one company, the Menasha Woodenware Company. On June 11, 1931, a fire attributed to a carelessly discarded cigarette destroyed the mill. Mill workers from Minertown and Carter subsequently moved away, finding work with other lumber companies, and had completely abandoned the town by 1939. What remains is an archaeological site that can tell us about the physical structure and people of a lumber company town.

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