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Central Wisconsin Part 7

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Polar    
Population: 984

Polar is a town in Langlade County.

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Prentice   
Population: 660     

Prentice is a village in Price County.

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Prentice began as a lumber town, when Alexander Prentice of Portage formed the Jump River Lumber Company in 1882. The mill there sawed as much as 100,000 board feet of lumber a day until timber in the surrounding country dwindled in the 1890s.

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Redgranite       
Population: 2149  

Redgranite is a village in Waushara County.

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The village was named after deposits of red granite in the area.

 

 

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Rome       
Population: 2720  

Rome is a town in Adams County.

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Rosholt        
Population: 506

Rosholt is a village in Portage County.

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The person recorded as first owning the land on which Rosholt sits is Gottlieb Stanbly. Stanbly received four 40-acre parcels directly from the U.S. Government on May 10, 1858 because he was a veteran. Gottlieb Stanbly sold the land to Theodor Stanbly in 1861 for $430 when Gottlieb left the area to fight in the Civil War. Theodor sold the land to Jens Rasmussen in 1867 for $400. Rasmussen created a millpond by damming Flume Creek, and built a water-driven feed mill sometime between 1867 and 1881. John Gilbert Rosholt built the first sawmill in town on the east end of the millpond in
1884, after making a deal to share water rights with Rasmussen. J.G. Rosholt's first mill burned in 1901, but it was rebuilt later that year and into 1902. The first survey and platting of Rosholt was done on June 1, 1903 at J.G. Rosholt's request. Rosholt was incorporated in 1907 and was named after J.G. Rosholt, who was elected the first village president on April 7, 1908.

 

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