Editing Nelsonville, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
The community of Nelsonville began about 1855 when English immigrant Jerome Nelson built a six-foot-high dam spanning the [[Tomorrow/Waupaca River|Tomorrow River]], with a sawmill across the river from where the flouring mill now stands. After Nelson returned from the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] he added the flouring mill in 1868. A post office was added in 1871, named Nelsonville for the mill owner. By 1876 two other businesses were there: the Nelson & Loberg general store, and Peterson Boots and Shoes. Other business started in subsequent years, and the [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[Lutheran]] church in 1888.<ref name=rosholt>{{cite book|last=Rosholt|first=Malcolm|title=Our County Our Story|date=1959|publisher=Portage County Board of Supervisors|location=Stevens Point, Wisconsin|pages=335-339|url=https://www.pocolibrary.org/files/Documents/Local_His_PDFs/Our_county_our_story.pdf|access-date=March 12, 2024}}</ref>

By 1913 the community had grown to about 170 people and other businesses included Swenson's Furniture Store, Loberg Company Mill, Nelsonville Creamery, and the State Bank of Nelsonville.<ref name=rosholt/> At this point the community incorporated as a village, in part in an effort to remove saloons that the town of [[Amherst, Wisconsin|Amherst]] refused to outlaw.<ref>[http://www.pchswi.org/archives/communities/nelsonville.html History of Nelsonville]. Portage County Historical Society.</ref> The other high priority was to stop the pasturing of stock on the streets of the village.<ref name=rosholt/>