Editing Boaz, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
Boaz was the boyhood home of [[Richard M. Brewer]], the first leader of the [[Lincoln County Regulators|Regulators]] in the [[Lincoln County War|Lincoln County (New Mexico) War]].<ref>[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=14828& Wisconsin Historical Society Dictionary of Wisconsin History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090717070556/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=14828& |date=July 17, 2009 }}</ref> A skeleton of a [[mastodon]], the [[Boaz mastodon]], was found in 1897, near Boaz.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archaeology/first-people/boaz.asp |title=forts |website=www.wisconsinhistory.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041224003509/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archaeology/first-people/boaz.asp |archive-date=December 24, 2004}}</ref>
[[File:BoazCommunityParkBrewerSign.jpg|thumb|left|Boaz Community Park, with historical marker for Richard M. Brewer]]