- Minertown-Oneva
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Minertown-Oneva
Location: State Trunk Hwy. 32, vicinity of Carter, Wisconsin Coordinates: 45°22′56.62″N 88°37′32.02″W / 45.3823944°N 88.6255611°WCoordinates: 45°22′56.62″N 88°37′32.02″W / 45.3823944°N 88.6255611°W Area: 43.5 acres (17.6 ha)[2] Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 09001315[1] Added to NRHP: May 4, 2010[1] Minertown-Oneva, also known as Minertown, in Forest County, Wisconsin is a historic logging camp built in the early 1900s by Wilbur and Henry T. Miner.[2] It's in the vicinity of Carter, Wisconsin.
According to the National Park Service:
In 1899, brothers Wilbur and Henry T. Miner from Vernon County, WI, purchased a 4,000 acre tract in Forest County, Wisconsin, where they constructed a sawmill and related settlement known as Minertown. The settlement included a boarding house and company store for those employed by the Miner Lumber Company, as well as a planing mill, roundhouse, depot, store, a blacksmith shop, a cook shanty, several small four-room houses, and a barn. In 1931, the mill was destroyed by fire and the remaining community was subsequently abandoned. Today, the Minertown-Oneva site is significant for its potential to provide information relevant to late nineteenth century settlement of Forest County, as well as the history of Wisconsin’s hardwood logging era.[3]
The site was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 2010.[1] The listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service's weekly list of May 28, 2010.[4]
References
- ^ a b c "Announcements and actions on properties for the National Register of Historic Places for May 28, 2010". Weekly Listings. National Park Service. May 28, 2010. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20100528.htm. Retrieved 2010-06-03.
- ^ a b C. Stephan Demeter, Nancy Ford Demeter, and Kathryn C. Egan-Bruhy (February 5, 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Minertown / Oneva, FS Site No: 09-06-05-031; State Site No: 47FR0112; FS Special Management Area (SMA) 8F" (PDF). National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/feature/weekly_features/Minertown.pdf. Retrieved 2010-06-03. (46 pages, with 5 figures and 7 photos)
- ^ "Weekly Highlight 05/28/2010 Minertown-Oneva, Forest County, Wisconsin". http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/feature/weekly_features/10_05_28_Minertown-Oneva.htm.
- ^ "Weekly List Actions". National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/nrlist.htm. Retrieved 2010-06-03.
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