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History of Northern Wisconsin
pub: The Western Historical Company,
     Chicago, 1881


         [page 168-169]
         
         MONDOVI
         
         The beautiful village of Mondovi is an inland village,
       situated in the northeast corner of the county, in the
       town of Naples, on the bank of Buffalo River, at the con-
       fluence of Mill Creek, and has all the advantages of a
       city. This creek furnishes ample water-power for a custom
       flouring-mill, built in 1878 and owned and operated by
       JAMES T. BRAWNLEE; two repairing machine shops - one
       built in 1871 by N. K. and HIRAM FISHER, and now owned
       and operated by N. K. FISHER, the other built in the 
       Spring of 1881 by EZRA MYERS, and now operated by him.
       
         The great pine regions of the Chippewa Valley furnish
       a market for beef, pork and grain at better prices than
       can be obtained in eastern markets. The village has a
       graded school building, erected in 1878, and cost about
       $4,000. This building is not only an ornament to the 
       place, but proves that the citizens appreciate the ad-
       vantages of good educational facilities, which are made 
       an object of individual interest and are above the usual 
       average. The village is abundantly supplied with churches
       - containing three, viz., the Methodist, built in 1865 
       at a cost of $2,000, and now has a membership of about 
       one hundred; the Congregational, built in 1871, and now 
       has about sixty-five members; the Baptist, built in 1873 
       at a cost of $4,000, and now has a membership of over 
       one hundred. REV. B. F. MORSE has been pastor of the 
       Baptist Church and society for twenty four years.
       
         Mondovi also has a newspaper, published weekly and
       is a lively sheet and fair exponent of the enterprise
       and intelligence of the community. The town was first
       settled by H.P., L. D. and P. FARRINGTON, WILLIAM VAN
       WATERS, THOMAS GLASSPOOL and H. BROWN in 1855. Some of
       these persons are still residents of the town. The
       inhabitants of the village are principally from the
       New England States - descendants from the good old
       Puritan stock, and have brought with them from their
       Eastern homes and true Yankee pluck and enterprise.
       
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