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Location of Taylor County in Wisconsin. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Taylor County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Taylor County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which ...
The current Taylor County Courthouse, built in 1914, is a Neoclassical-styled three-story building with a metal-clad dome, located in Medford, Wisconsin. [1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [2] It was preceded by a courthouse built in 1876 on the same site.
The state of Wisconsin has jurisdiction over 120 miles (190 km) of state highways in Taylor County, including STH-13, STH-64, STH-73, STH-97, and STH-102. STH-13 runs north–south through the eastern half of the county and STH-73 is the major north–south highway in the western half of the county.
An 1880 map of the area shows some sort of road entering what would become Goodrich from the Medford side, following the course of modern Highway 64 for two miles, then angling south into Marathon County. [10] A map from around 1900 showed one road following the course of 64 for a few miles, and two other roads along the southwest corner of the ...
Medford is located on historic Ojibwe forest land acquired by the United States in the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters.In 1864, the federal government authorized a grant of some 837,000 acres (1,308 sq mi; 3,390 km 2) of this land to subsidize railway construction through the area.
At the formation of Taylor County in 1875, the six-mile square that would become Holway was part of the original town of Little Black, which spanned the width of the county from east to west. [8] An 1880 map of central Wisconsin shows no roads in the six-mile square, but two roads of some sort reach the east edge - one from Stetsonville and one ...
When Taylor County was formed in 1875, the land that would become Greenwood was part of a larger Town of Chelsea, which spanned the county east to west. In 1895 Greenwood was split off as its own town. [11] St Anne's was once part of a rural crossroads community. Now the church and cemetery are on the National Register of Historic Places.
The largest grantee was Ezra Cornell, who received many half-sections in McKinley in 1868 and 1869 to help finance the new Cornell University under the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. [ 6 ] A c. 1888 map of the square that would become McKinley shows no roads and no settlers.