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June 24, 1994 (Roughly Bridge St. from Columbia to Spring Sts. Chippewa Falls: 33 contributing properties built from 1873 to 1943, [6] [7] including the Romanesque Revival First National Bank built in 1873, [8] several Italianate buildings from the 1880s, the 1890 Caesar Harness Shop, [9] and the 1908 Neoclassical Federal Building.
William Irvine's career touches on many aspects of the logging boom that built Chippewa Falls. In 1866 at age 14 he started working with his brother-in-law [7] as a raftsman for Pound, Halbert & Company - i.e. guiding rafts of sawed logs from the sawmill that stood where Duncan Creek meets the Chippewa River downstream to places like Reads Landing, where the Chippewa joins the Mississippi.
84-foot wood-hulled 2-masted scow-schooner built in 1867 by J.A. Johnson of Dover Bay. Carried lumber, hay, feed, corn and pork. Carried lumber, hay, feed, corn and pork. Bought in 1880 by the Freyberg Brothers of Washington Island to carry lumber to their mill in Sheboygan and return with groceries.
After James's death, Justine sold the house in 1887 to Irish immigrant Edward Rutledge, vice-president of the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company and an assistant to Frederick Weyerhaeuser. In 1888 Rutledge altered the mansion to its present appearance. In 1915 the house was sold to Dayton E. Cook, a prominent lawyer and county judge.
November 4, 1993 (Roughly, Central Ave. from Depot St. to Third St. Marshfield: Includes many old brick businesses like the Thomas House Hotel built after the fire of 1887, the Romanesque Revival old city hall built in 1901, the Craftsman-styled Wisconsin Central depot built in 1910, and the eclectic-styled Hotel Charles built in 1925, which hosted JFK, Patsy Cline, and possibly John Dillinger.
The first sawmill in the Chippewa Valley was probably functioning at what would become Menomonie around 1831. By 1840, Jean Brunet and associates were sawing wood at Chippewa Falls. Floods destroyed these early mills, and the lumbermen rebuilt them. [5] In the late 1800s, Chippewa Falls was said to have the largest sawmill under one roof in the ...
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July 5, 2016 (P2150 Cty. Rd. Y: Plover: 190-acre county park formed in 1924 around a gorge where the Eau Claire River plunges down between outcrops of mylonite.Above, CTH Y crosses the river on a 1927 filled spandrel arch bridge clad in stone.
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