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Meanwhile, more and more farmers had been settling the surrounding cut-over lands left by logging. Around 1903 the private Prentice Creamery started buying milk and selling butter. In 1915, a farmers' co-operative called the Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company was formed, and it converted the old hide house to a dairy plant. It produced 500 ...
Leo Heikkinen in 1960. Leo Leonard Heikkinen (June 11, 1917 – September 10, 1999) [1] was an American entrepreneur and millionaire who founded and owned numerous forestry production companies in Prentice, Wisconsin, including Prentice Hydraulics, Inc. (now a division of Caterpillar, Inc.) [2] and Multitek North America, LLC. [1]
At the present time, four shops make up the facilities of Prentice Hydraulics, Inc. The largest, Plant #1, covers over 50,000 sq. ft., is serviced by a railroad siding, and contains complete machine and fabricating facilities, plus a master parts room, paint shop, engineering department, shipping department and assembly room.
Prentice is a village in Price County, Wisconsin, United States, near where Highway 13 crosses the Jump River. The population was 660 at the 2010 census . The village is located within the Town of Prentice .
Prentice is a town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 479 at the 2000 census. The population was 479 at the 2000 census. The village of Prentice and the unincorporated community of Pennington are located within the town.
Price County was created on March 3, 1879, when Wisconsin Governor William E. Smith signed legislation creating the county. The county was later organized in 1882. [3] William T. Price (1824–1886), for whom Price County was named, [4] was President of the Wisconsin Senate and an early logger in Price County; he later was elected to the U.S ...
The Pine Line Trail, also known as Price-Taylor Rail Trail, is a multi-use rail-trail in Taylor and Price Counties in north-central Wisconsin.It is 26.2 miles long, running from farm country around Medford on the south end across the terminal moraine left by the last glacier in the area, passing hills, lakes and swamps, almost reaching Prentice.
Brantwood is an unincorporated community in southern Price County, Wisconsin, United States located within the town of Knox. [2] It lies along United States Highway 8 and on the Wisconsin Central Railroad, between Prentice on the west and Tomahawk on the east. [3] The rural community was settled in the late 1890s as a logging community.