They founded what is known today is the Gideons. Tours By appointment. The restored depot is under development as a museum. You can read the historical marker and walk along the railroad parkway. The nursery is the largest of its kind in the state.
Tours are available.
In the 1830s, Cassville was a bustling river town which tried unsuccessfully to become the first Territorial Capital. The Town was maned after Lewis Cass, Governor of the Michigan Territory, which then included Wisconsin. Cross the Mississippi River by car ferry on the historic ferry route traveled by Nelson Dewey in 1836. Nelson Dewey would become Wisconsin's first governor in 1848. Ferry runs May-Oct.