Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2025
                           All Rights Reserved
                        USGenNet Data Repository

        Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page:
                <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/
===========================================================================
Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott
All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded.
===========================================================================
History of Northern Wisconsin
pub: The Western Historical Company,
     Chicago, 1881


         [page 184]
         
         HILBERT JUNCTION
         
         Hilbert Junction is a thriving young village whose birth
       dates from the time of building of the Wisconsin Central
       Road. It is here that the Menasha and Green Bay branches
       cross. A short time before the line was completed, O. D.
       BISHOP built a saw-mill, which became one of the best in
       this section. Hilbert contains a church, a district school,
       three hotels, a marble yard, grain elevators, a stave factory,
       some good residences and business houses. It is improving
       rapidly.
         Three miles east of Hilbert on the north branch of the
       Manitowoc River is the village of Rantoul Center. It has
       a population of about 300 inhabitants, and contains a stave
       factory, saw and grist-mill, a hotel and several stores.
         The little village of Potters Mills was the only one in
       the town of Rantoul before the Milwaukee & Northern Road 
       was built in 1872. The site of the village was the farm
       of DAVID COY. He sold his land to H. N. SMITH & Co., who 
       laid out the village. JOSEPH HOLT'S hotel was the first 
       building erected. In 1869 BISHOP Brothers built a saw-
       mill just northwest of the village. The place contains a
       school house, a number of stores, and other conveniences
       of a small settlement.
       
===========================================================================