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For several years, the Chippewa Valley Bank was housed in the building. It also has connections with a number of local politicians, including Byron Buffington, who was the bank president, and Henry Laycock, who helped build it. Both men were members of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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.
Buffington was in the grocery, merchandise, and lumber businesses. He was also president of the Chippewa Valley Bank. Buffington served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1897 and 1899 as a Republican. [2] Buffington died in Eau Claire, Wisconsin from complications caused by appendicitis. [3] [4]
Union National Bank: Union National Bank: January 28, 1983 : 131 S. Barstow St. Eau Claire: 1930 Art Deco building. Union Bank had roots in local banks that went back to the 1870s. [70] 60: US Post Office and Courthouse: US Post Office and Courthouse
The valley was first inhabited by the Ojibwe and colonized by German and Scandinavian immigrants. The region also has a large Hmong community. While the term "Chippewa Valley" technically refers to the drainage basin of the Chippewa River and its tributaries, the name is more often applied to the Eau Claire-Chippewa Falls metropolitan area and the surrounding area—including communities not ...
Their North Wisconsin Lumber Company dammed the river at the site of the current Hayward dam and built a sawmill, shingle mill, and planing mill to the north, called by 1883 "the Big Mill." [14] That same year the village of Hayward was platted [15] and Sawyer County was established, formed from parts of early versions of Chippewa and Ashland ...
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1922 newspaper office in Ojibwa, a community planned to settle immigrant farmers in Wisconsin's cutover, by Benjamin Faast's Wisconsin Colonization Company. That company failed in 1929, but it planted a seed of the Federal Land Bank system. [13] [14]