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Remarkable Women of Burnett County
Burnett County has had many remarkable women that have shaped its colorful and interesting history. This book documents a few that the author has found noteworthy. The book spans approximately a century and covers 16 women from Burnett County's "first lady" Catherine Anderson to Lolita Taylor.
The Proprieter
This is a biography of Simon Thoreson, 1849-1918. Mr. Thoreson was a mercantile store owner in the community of Grantsburg, Burnett County, Wisconsin shortly after its founding.
Falun
Known for its colorful horse carvings, red paint, its copper mine-the oldest commercial enterprise still in existence, winter sports, a blue Lutheran church, and a coat of arms that indicates its ancient pagan heritage as a center of Freyja worship, the ancient city of Falun, Sweden was the home of many immigrants who came to America. Finding that the area of south central Burnett County, Wisconsin reminded them of their homeland, they named their new settlement, Falun. For thirty years the region stood as a beacon for settlers from the Dalarna region of SwedenNow, just a hamlet on Highway 70, Falun was once a center of business and a town aspiring to bigger things. Unfortunately, like many towns in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, changing economies, its geographic isolation, waiting for a railroad that never came, bad luck, and too many fires shaped its destiny to what it is today. Falun: From Sweden to Wisconsin explores this rich history and the colorful people that made it.
Grantsburg
A history of Grantsburg, WI from its origins in 1865 to around 1905. The author looks at some of the people, business, and events that shaped this community in NW Wisconsin and the early county seat of Burnett County.
Amidst the Meadow Grass
Amidst the meadow grass describes the history of the Crex Carpet Company and how it gave rise to the Crex Meadows in Burnett County Wisconsin. The book journeys from the ecology to the land purchases and includes the people and wildlife that have made the area a tourist attraction and a wildlife mecca today.
To the Woods
Over a century ago, stopping places dotted northwestern Wisconsin and provided relaxation, accommodations, and food as well as fodder and water for horses and oxen on the tote road from St. Croix Falls to Bayfield, Wisconsin. "Toting" is the term used to describe the hauling of goods or freight by oxen and wagon. Tote roads were the roads created in the early history of the area which provided a way for freight to be transported to and from lumber camps and small settlements.The long trip made stopping places necessary. Generally, most early stopping places in the nineteenth century in northwestern Wisconsin were primitive and crowded boarding places built and utilized by lumber companies. To the Woods: Lumberjacks and Stopping Places in Northwestern Wisconsin reviews many of these places as well as the interesting men and women who operated them.
Grantsburg
GRANTSBURG has had an up and down past and like all small towns in rural America, it faces an uncertain future. After an initial boom, the village went into a prolonged downturn after 1920, reaching bottom somewhere in the Depression with a bank failure, a telephone war, an electric utility wrapped up in a fraudulent Wall Street enterprise, collapsed businesses, record cold and heat, a school strike, and rampant poverty. About all the village had going for it during this period was butter and winter. With a new generation of leaders, the community sorted through most of this past, and after the War, developed a manufacturing economy, built new schools and experienced a boom. For decades, Gra...
The Home Front
From rationing to the loss of loved ones, World War II forced many sacrifices on the American population. During the period from the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 until VJ Day in 1945, life profoundly changed. The definition of patriotism evolved from simple flag waving and the singing of the National Anthem to planting a large garden or to even donating the bumper on your car to the war effort. It was a period like no other in American history and one now largely forgotten about. It also led to millions of women even entering the workforce. In The Home Front, Susan Segelstrom chronicles the efforts and sacrifices made in Burnett County, Wisconsin to the war effort.
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