From the City Journal "On Wisconsin!"
Solon Springs
Population: 600 Solon Springs is a village in Douglas County. Trivia: Solon Springs was first called White Birch, from a grove of white birch trees near the original town site. The present name of
Solon Springs honors Thomas F. Solon, who discovered mineral springs here. A post office was established as White Birch in 1885,
and the name of the post office was changed to Solon Springs in 1896.
Spooner
Population: 2682 Spooner is a city in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States. The city is located mostly within the southwest corner of the Town
of Spooner, with a small portion extending into the Town of Beaver Brook on the south, the Town of Bashaw on the southwest, and the
Town of Evergreen on the west. The city's nickname, Crossroads of the North, is a reference to the city's location at the junction
of two U.S. highways, 53 and 63, and State Highways 70 and 253. Trivia: The Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum, a museum dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the cultural heritage of canoes
and canoeing in North America, has displays of canoes and canoe-related ephemera.
Stone Lake
Population: 544 Stone Lake is a town in Washburn County. Trivia: The town celebrates an annual cranberry festival which draws thousands to Stone Lake each fall on the first Saturday of October.
Superior
Population: 27244 Superior is a city in, and the county seat of, Douglas County. Richard I. Bong Airport (KSUW) serves the city and surrounding
communities. Trivia: Superior was the final port of call for the SS Edmund Fitzgerald before her sinking on November 10, 1975. The first-known inhabitants of what is now Douglas County were Mound Builders. These people appeared on the shores of Lake Superior
sometime after the latest glacier receded. They mined copper in the Minong Range and at Manitou Falls on the Black River. They
pounded this metal into weapons, implements, and ornaments, some of which were later found buried as grave goods in mounds with
their dead. Their civilization was eventually overrun by other tribes, mainly of Muskhogean and Iroquois stock, and they disappeared
as a distinct culture in late prehistoric American times.
Population: 600 Solon Springs is a village in Douglas County. Trivia: Solon Springs was first called White Birch, from a grove of white birch trees near the original town site. The present name of
Solon Springs honors Thomas F. Solon, who discovered mineral springs here. A post office was established as White Birch in 1885,
and the name of the post office was changed to Solon Springs in 1896.
Spooner
Population: 2682 Spooner is a city in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States. The city is located mostly within the southwest corner of the Town
of Spooner, with a small portion extending into the Town of Beaver Brook on the south, the Town of Bashaw on the southwest, and the
Town of Evergreen on the west. The city's nickname, Crossroads of the North, is a reference to the city's location at the junction
of two U.S. highways, 53 and 63, and State Highways 70 and 253. Trivia: The Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum, a museum dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the cultural heritage of canoes
and canoeing in North America, has displays of canoes and canoe-related ephemera.
Stone Lake
Population: 544 Stone Lake is a town in Washburn County. Trivia: The town celebrates an annual cranberry festival which draws thousands to Stone Lake each fall on the first Saturday of October.
Superior
Population: 27244 Superior is a city in, and the county seat of, Douglas County. Richard I. Bong Airport (KSUW) serves the city and surrounding
communities. Trivia: Superior was the final port of call for the SS Edmund Fitzgerald before her sinking on November 10, 1975. The first-known inhabitants of what is now Douglas County were Mound Builders. These people appeared on the shores of Lake Superior
sometime after the latest glacier receded. They mined copper in the Minong Range and at Manitou Falls on the Black River. They
pounded this metal into weapons, implements, and ornaments, some of which were later found buried as grave goods in mounds with
their dead. Their civilization was eventually overrun by other tribes, mainly of Muskhogean and Iroquois stock, and they disappeared
as a distinct culture in late prehistoric American times.
