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"Creating a Community
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Gordon Town Hall PO Box 68 |
Gordon-Wascott Transfer Station |
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9709 E.
County Road Y, Gordon, Wisconsin 54838 |
Collection Hours:
(click here for collection info)
Tuesday
and Thursday, 9:30am to 5:30pm
Saturday and Sunday 10am to
4pm
Phone 715-376-2315 |
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Office
Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
8:30am to noon and 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Phone 715-376-2693 - Fax 715-376-2668 |
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GORDON, WISCONSIN HISTORY
Centennial 1860-1960
The Museum
and Railroad Depot are available for viewing
from Memorial Day to Labor Day, Fridays-Monday from
10:00am-4:00pm. Artifacts and historical items are displayed
at the Museum and Depot with a curator on duty during the
summer months.
(see also
www.gordonwi.us.com/history.htm)
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Douglas County
was created by an Act
of Legislature on February 8, 1854, and was named after United State
Senator, Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois who was financially interested in
the new settlement. The settlement, located at the mouth of the
Nemadji River, was known as Superior. Douglas County, fourth largest
county in the State (land area), lies in the Northwest corner of the
Indian Head Country and the State. Superior is the county seat of
government and the home of our Court House, which is considered the finest
Court House in the Northwest. Today, there are forty-one supervisors
on the County Board representing twenty wards in the City of Superior,
five incorporated villages and sixteen towns. |
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History of Gordon
In the beginning, this
was an untamed wilderness, rivers and lakes and glimmering pools, vast
wastes of endless green forests extending westward to the prairie country.
To this untamed land came the trader, missionary and soldier. Again,
their ghostly campfires seem to burn, and the fitful light is cast around
on Lord and Vassel and black-robed Priest, mingled with wild forms of
savage warriors, knit in close fellowship on the same stern errand.
That errand was to wrest this wilderness from the primeval sleep of
centuries. The
St. Croix river and tributaries was long an ancient trade route and war
path of the Chippewa and Sioux Indian Tribes. The struggle between
these tribes was finally settled in a last great battle on this river,
when the Chippewa warriors under Chief Buffalo defeated the Sioux whose
defeated band retired to the prairies to fight the last great Indian wars
against the white invader.
It was truly the land of
Hiawatha, where members of the so-called lost tribe of the Turtle clan
hunted, fished, trapped, fought and pursued their ancient culture and
worshipped their gods. |
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Be sure to visit the Gordon Historical Society Museum in Gordon - Co Rd Y |
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Click here for more history (this is a large file, dial-ups will take
longer to download) |
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click here for Free download
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Wanted:
Gordon-Wascott Historical Society would like your family history sent to:
Nancy Hasbrouck, 13484 E Doetsch Ln, Gordon WI 54838. One typed page
or 2 handwritten pages with room for a family picture. Each
generation can have one page; each sibling can have one page. Tell
why you moved to Gordon or Wascott - when and how. The history books
will be printed in 2009 in celebration for Gordon's Sesquicentennial and
Wascott's Centennial. So far we have only 57 family histories, and
we would like yours! Any questions, call Nancy at 715-376-4234 or
Claudia Postl at 715-376-4407. Thank you!!
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WISCONSIN Facts and Info
 Statehoodod
May 29, 1848 (30th state)
Wisconsin's 150 years of Statehood 1998
Capital
Madison
Population
5,688,0404 (1/1/2009)
Nickname
America's Dairyland (1971)
Motto "Forward"
(1851)
Currency U.S. Dollar
Minnesota Quarter
(2004)
Bird
Robin (1926)
Flower
Wood Violet, adopted 1909
Song "On,
Wisconsin!" (1959)
Area
54,375 sq miles (34.8 million acres) land; 1,449 sq miles (982,155
acres) water
Number of Counties
72
Highest Point
Timms Hill, 2,301 ft. above sea level
Lowest Point
Lake Michigan, 581 ft. above sea level
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Located 3
hours from the Twin Cities and less than an hour from Duluth-Superior,
Gordon, WI is a vacation paradise, offering year-round activities.
Fishing, boating, snowmobile and ATV trails, cross-country skiing, some of
the best hunting in Wisconsin, and so much more!!
Come visit
Wisconsin's "Good Neighbors" ! |
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