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Gilman was incorporated as a village in 1914. In 1915 three gas lights lit the streets at night - the only street lights between Owen and Ladysmith at the time. That same year the Catholic Church was organized. Other denominations followed shortly. A high school started in 1917. A fire destroyed much of Gilman's business district in 1922, but ...
Gilman / ˈ ɡ ɪ l m ən / GHIL-mən) [1] is a town in Pierce County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 772 as of the 2000 census. The population was 772 as of the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Olivet and Viking are partially located in the town.
For a more detailed discussion, see Administrative divisions of Wisconsin#Town. Frequently a village or city may have the same name as a town. As of 2006, Wisconsin had 1,260 towns, some with the same name. This list of towns and their respective counties is current as of 2002, per the Wisconsin Department of Administration.
In 1902 and 1903 the Stanley, Merrill and Phillips Railway built its road up the east side of what would become Aurora, creating a station at Gilman. Around 1905 the J.S. Owen Company built a line for the Wisconsin Central heading northwest across the town for Ladysmith and Superior - now the Canadian National. [11]
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As of the census [3] of 2010, there were 118 people, 57 households, and 30 families living in the village. The population density was 76.6 inhabitants per square mile (29.6/km 2).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.8 square miles (92.8 km 2), of which 35.7 square miles (92.4 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km 2) (0.45%) is water. The water consists mostly of man-made flowages in the Pershing Wildlife Area, and the Fisher River, which crosses Pershing from east to west.
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.