Dexterville, Wisconsin
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History
Dexterville was founded in about 1848.[4] In 1850, the sawmilling magnate George Hiles moved to the area and set up a lumbermill in Dexterville. Dexter township may be named after Dexter, Michigan, the native home of a first settler, although folk etymology maintains the township is named after the mule of a local pioneer.[5] Hiles was granted a post office for Dexterville in 1858.[6] He created the Milwaukee, Dexterville, and Northern Railroad in 1887 to carry timber from the area.[7] The railroad was purchased by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad a few years later, and passed through the community in 1890.[8]
The Dexterville Dam is located on the southern edge of Lake Dexter; it dams the Yellow River, creating Dexter Lake. The dam was created by Wood County to provide waterfront for the current Dexter County Park.[9] A county worker died performing maintenance on the dam in 2009.[10]
Notable people
- Amos E. Germer, lawyer and politician, lived in Dexterville.[11]
Notes
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- ↑ "News of the Badger State," The Blair Press, March 6, 1924, at 2.
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- ↑ "St. Paul Road will reach Superior." Chicago Tribune May 21, 1890, at 8.
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- ↑ 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1899,' Biographical Sketch of Amos E. Germer, pg. 792
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