Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-11
WRONG in HIS REckoNNGs.

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"E. f. LaDn, sage of Mosinee, who is
writing an historical sketch of that vii
lage which he will have printed in book
form, was in the city this forenoon.
Standing at the corner of Third and
Washington streets, he recalled his first
visit to Wausau when he stood upon
practically the same spot. There was
no street there then. Across the way
there was small house built BY the late
Jacob Kolter; on the south side of
Washington street building occupied
by George CasterliEe, somewhere about
the Singer company's Office is now, and
further Gown in the woods, for there
were no streets then in this part of the
city. was the little peanut stand of Her
man Miller, about where the Delmonico
now stands on Third street. What few
houses there were in the city all faced
the river. The Grand avenue road did
not enter the city as it does now, but
ran down upon the fiat near the Kelly
place and then came up near the foot of
what is now Third street"
The PILoT can hardly see how man,
whose memory appears to be so good as
that of MIR. LaDu, could make such
statement, which in the main, is so
entirely incorrect.
Wausau was plated in 1852 1t took
in and included Forest street on the
south and Mcclellan street on the north
and from Fifth street to the Wisconsin
river; the streets were opened at that
time, or at least it is supposed they were.
In 1S55, VIM. Wilson built his resi-
dence on Scott street; VIM Gouldsbury,
also built the residence now owned by
j K. Leahy the same year and Rufus
Manson built his residence the same
year at the corner of Mcclellan and
Fourth streets. Previous to 1860, there
were dwellings on Main, Second, Third
and Fourth from Forest to Mcclellan
and on ali the side streets, from Fourth
to the river. The large building, now
occupied by the Alex. Stewart Lumber
company was built on the north side of
Scott street, between Second and Third
streets in the latter part of the fifties
and in which Rev. Thos Green held
Episcopal church services. In 1860
there was not tree left standing of the
primeval forest on the original plat of
this city. The first school house of any
nPatantianS was hnilt on tho otto xyhara
the Washington schools now, on Jeffer-
son street, that was in 1862 All east
of the original plat to the marsh was
then clear of standing trees and there
were only here and there, on the
ground, the rotting remains of trees
and plenty of stumps Washington
street was all built up to Fourth street
as early as 1859, of course there was
now and then vacant lot. In 1865 the
post office was where the Pilot office
now stands.
When Mr. LaDu stood on Third
street liz an early day, when Herman
operated store on Third street and
George Casterline lived at the corner of
Third and Washington streets, it must
have been about the year 1867 Her
man Miller came here in 1856 and
not until 1867 did he enter into bust
ness for himself He then built store
about where b. Riebe's barber shop is
now. Hence, even ten years previous
to that time the trees were all cut off
the original plat, streets laid out, opened
and travelled In 1863 the writer was
the printers deyil'' in the Central office
which occupied building where Bau-
mans store now stands. From that
building to Washington street the land
was vacant, had not been cultivated
and there were old logs and stumps
upon it and the people had cut off the
corner by path, but there were no
trees. All houses faced the streets last
as they do now.
The road leading out of the city to
Stevens Point, now Grand avenue,
never run down onto the fiat. Up to
about 1878, the road followed the
brow of the hill, cutting through where
the residence of Judge Silverthorn is
now and passing along through the
Hoetlinger property, and then going
northwest through the back end of the
property now occupied by Henry Seim
and intersecting with Third and Forest
streets. This was changed when fences
were built and property lines drawn
and in about 1858 the road was laid out
about as it is now, Grand avenue
Strengthened out some moved little
east, perhaps, and Forest street to
Grand avenue perhaps adjusted little
to conform to property lines, that's all
The fiat was farm owned by VIM.
Coulthirst and there never was road
laid out along the river, only short
distance and that was used to meet the
steam boat which piled on the river
between Wausau and Mosinee, and to go
to a small farm back of where the brew
ries now are, but extended no further
south and never assembled the hill