Downsville, Wisconsin

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Downsville is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Dunn, located within Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States,[1][2] where Highway 25 crosses the Red Cedar River. As of the 2020 census, its population was 188, down from 146 at the 2010 census.[3]

The community was founded in 1855. Around that time, Ebenezer Thompson tried to dam the Red Cedar, but his half-built dam was destroyed by a flood. In 1857 Captain Downs tried again and succeeded in building a dam which powered a sawmill. The village was platted in 1859, and named for Downs. He sold the mill to Knapp, Stout & Co., who expanded it and added planing and shingle mills which employed about 100 men by 1891. By that year the town also had a steam feed mill and a stop on the Menomonie branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway.[4]

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Downsville's Lodge 1961 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows built this hall in 1908. It is now a local museum and the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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