Editing Cornell, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
[[File:Cornell Pulpwood Stacker 2.jpg|thumb|left|[[Cornell Pulpwood Stacker]] ]]

The Cornell area was long visited by [[Sioux]] and [[Ojibwe|Chippewa]] people passing up and down the Chippewa River.

The early white settlement was called ''Brunet Falls'', named for Jean Brunet, who opened a trading post in the area in 1843.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Callary|first1=Edward|title=Place Names of Wisconsin|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|location=Madison, WI|isbn=978-0-299-30964-0|page=65|year=2016}}</ref> Brunet was a French-born American who served in the U.S. Army and led the building in 1836 of the first dam and sawmill in the then-wilderness at Chippewa Falls. After that he moved up the river another 30 miles and built a log cabin a mile below what would become Cornell on the west bank of the river.<ref>{{cite web|title=Brunet Island State Park - History|url=https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/parks/brunetisland/history|publisher=Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources|access-date=2023-03-05}}</ref> From his log cabin he ran a [[trading post]] that initially served Indians, and later grew into a stopping place (inn) for loggers and traders heading upriver.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bartlett|first=William W.|title=Jean Brunet, Chippewa Valley Pioneer|journal=The Wisconsin Magazine of History|date=September 1921|volume=5|issue=1|page=38|url=https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wmh/id/2549/rec/28|access-date=2023-03-05}}</ref>

The city was named for [[Ezra Cornell]], one of the founders of [[Western Union]], who owned a very large amount of timber land in the area. Upon his death in 1874, this land became a part of the endowment for the [[Ivy League]] [[Cornell University|university]] that bears his name.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA171|year=1908|page=171}}</ref>

Cornell has the U.S.'s only surviving [[Cornell_Pulpwood_Stacker|pulpwood stacker]], a huge device built next to the Chippewa River in 1911 to quickly and safely stack large quantities of pulpwood logs for storage until they could be processed in the [[paper mill]] nearby. The stacker has been unused since 1971, but is considered a historical treasure.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the Stacker|url=https://cityofcornell.com/index.php/history-of-the-stacker/|publisher=City of Cornell|access-date=2023-07-30}}</ref>