Downsville, Wisconsin
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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2010 | 146 | — |
Downsville is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Dunn, in Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States,[1][2] where Highway 25 crosses the Red Cedar River. As of the 2010 census, its population was 146.[3]
The community was founded in 1855. Around that time, Ebenezer Thompson tried to dam the Red Cedar, but his half-built dam was destroyed by a flood. In 1857 Captain Downs tried again and succeeded in building a dam which powered a sawmill. The village was platted in 1859, and named for Downs. He sold the mill to Knapp, Stout & Co., who expanded it and added planing and shingle mills which employed about 100 men by 1891. By that year the town also had a steam feed mill and a stop on the Menomonie branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway.[4]
Notes
- ^ "Downsville, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Downsville, Wisconsin
- ^ "U.S. Census website". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
- ^ Forrester, George (1891). Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin. Chicago, Illinois: A. Warner. pp. 123–124. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
External links
- Downsville village website
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