Ziegler, Wisconsin

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Ziegler is a ghost town in the town of Berlin, Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. [1]

Berlin, Marathon County, Wisconsin Town in Wisconsin, United States

Berlin is a town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 945 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated communities of Emmerich and Naugart are located in the town. The unincorporated community of Teagesville is also located partially in the town. The ghost town of Ziegler was also located in the town.

Marathon County, Wisconsin county in Wisconsin, United States

Marathon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 134,063. Its county seat is Wausau. It was founded in 1850, created from a portion of Portage County. At that time the county stretched to the northern border with the upper Michigan peninsula. It is named after the battlefield at Marathon, Greece.

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Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The state is divided into 72 counties.

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History

In 1898, Ziegler had 60 people, a planing mill and a saw mill, one cheese factory; one hardware and one shoe store, and a Lutheran church. The United States Post Office delivered mail three times a week. [2] In 1909, Ziegler had a post office. [3]

A planing mill is a facility that takes cut and seasoned boards from a sawmill and turns them into finished dimensional lumber. Machines used in the mill include the planer and matcher, the molding machines, and varieties of saws. In the planing mill planer operators use machines that smooth and cut the wood for many different uses.

Notable people

Robert Plisch was an American politician and farmer.

Notes

  1. ↑ 'Turner's Hand Book and Gazetter of Wisconsin,' Lura J. Turner, Joseph M. Turner, Paul S. Reinsch: L.J. Turner and J.M. Turner, Burlington, Wisconsin; 1898, 1939-Zieger, pg. 266
  2. ↑ 'Turner's Hand Book and Gazetter of Wisconsin,' Lura J. Turner, Joseph M. Turner, Paul S. Reinsch: L.J. Turner and J.M. Turner, Burlington, Wisconsin: 1898, 1939-Ziegler, pg. 266
  3. ↑ 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1909,' pg. 630
  4. ↑ 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1895,' Biographical Sketch of Robert Plisch, pg. 684


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