Dexterville, Wisconsin

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Dexterville, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
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Dexterville, Wisconsin
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Dexterville, Wisconsin
Coordinates: 44°22′35″N90°06′38″W / 44.37639°N 90.11056°W / 44.37639; -90.11056
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Wisconsin.svg  Wisconsin
County Wood
Elevation
302 m (991 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 715 & 534
GNIS feature ID1563957 [1]

Dexterville is an unincorporated community in the town of Dexter, Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. [1] [2] [3] It is located at the intersection of Wisconsin Highway 80 and Wisconsin Highway 54.

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History

Dexterville was founded in about 1848. [4] In 1850, the sawmilling magnate George Hiles moved to the area and set up a lumbermill in Dexterville. Dexter township may be named after Dexter, Michigan, the native home of a first settler, although folk etymology maintains the township is named after the mule of a local pioneer. [5] Hiles was granted a post office for Dexterville in 1858. [6] He created the Milwaukee, Dexterville, and Northern Railroad in 1887 to carry timber from the area. [7] The railroad was purchased by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad a few years later, and passed through the community in 1890. [8]

The Dexterville Dam is located on the southern edge of Lake Dexter; it dams the Yellow River, creating Dexter Lake. The dam was created by Wood County to provide waterfront for the current Dexter County Park. [9] A county worker died performing maintenance on the dam in 2009. [10]

Notable people

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Dexterville, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ "US Cities & State Gazetteer".
  3. ↑ "HOWGS - Wood County, Wisconsin - History".
  4. ↑ "News of the Badger State," The Blair Press, March 6, 1924, at 2.
  5. ↑ Rudolph, Robert S. (1970). Wood County Place Names (PDF). The University of Wisconsin Press. p. 21.
  6. ↑ Robert S. Rudolph. Wood County Place Names (PDF). p. 97. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
  7. ↑ "Railroad Histories".
  8. ↑ "St. Paul Road will reach Superior." Chicago Tribune May 21, 1890, at 8.
  9. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-TEWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZxoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2054,2086967 [ dead link ]
  10. ↑ "Wood County man dies after fall into icy water".
  11. ↑ 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1899,' Biographical Sketch of Amos E. Germer, pg. 792

Coordinates: 44°22′35″N90°06′38″W / 44.37639°N 90.11056°W / 44.37639; -90.11056

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