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  2. North Wisconsin Lumber Company Office - Wikipedia

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    The office was built in 1889 by the North Wisconsin Lumber Company, a prominent logging company in Wisconsin's Namekagon region which was founded by A.J. Hayward and R.L. McCormick. The building's design includes cast iron columns in its storefront, tall windows with arched lintels , and brick corbels and dentils .

  3. Reclaimed lumber - Wikipedia

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    A lounge chair using reclaimed wood. Reclaimed lumber is processed wood retrieved from its original application for purposes of subsequent use. Most reclaimed lumber comes from timbers and decking rescued from old barns, factories and warehouses, although some companies use wood from less traditional structures such as boxcars, coal mines and wine barrels.

  4. Richfield, Wood County, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Two railroads crossed the northeast corner of Richfield, running from Wisconsin Rapids to Marshfield: the Wisconsin Central and the Chicago & Northwestern. [11] The 1909 plat map showed some details of the buildings at Bethel Academy, and noted a blacksmith shop a mile to the east. New schools had appeared where modern 80 meets N and where ...

  5. Birchwood, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    The large lumber company brought the SS and Omaha railroads to northern Wisconsin. They also created many logging camps that turned into small towns. Birchwood is located where it is due to the Birch Lake lumber camp, and the crossing of the Soo and the Omaha railroads. [7] Birchwood WI was platted in 1901.

  6. Morse (community), Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    By next spring the company had completed the sawmill, a shingle and lath mill, a boarding house, a store, a blacksmith shop, and lumber sheds. [3] The mill began sawing in June 1882. That winter the company ran three logging camps out in their forests. In 1884 the mill employed 50 to 75 men and shipped out as many as five railcars of lumber a day.

  7. List of Wisconsin area codes - Wikipedia

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    Area code map for Wisconsin. The U.S. state of Wisconsin is serviced in five distinct numbering plan areas (NPAs) with the following area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). Area codes 414 and 715 were among the original North American area codes assigned in 1947.

  8. Chippewa Valley - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Bethel, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Bethel was established in 1899 as a Seventh-day Adventist education and religious community. The land had belonged to the Lyman Lumber Company. Lyman offered 200 acres (0.81 km 2) to the S.D.A.'s Wisconsin conference if they would agree to buy an additional 800 acres of Lyman land.