Editing Cary, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
In the summer of 1851 a crew working for the U.S. government [[Surveying|surveyed]] the outline of the six mile square that would become Cary. That December another crew marked all the [[Section (United States land surveying)|section corners]], walking through the woods and wading the swamps, measuring with [[Gunter's chain|chain]] and [[Solar compass|compass]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Land Survey Information|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SurveyNotes/SurveyInfo.html|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=March 26, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Field Notes for T23N R2E|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=PLSS&twp=T023NR002E|work=Original Field Notes and Plat Maps, 1833-1866|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=May 8, 2013}}</ref> When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description:
<blockquote>''The surface of this Township is generally level. Except in the Northern Part which is somewhat Rolling. There is considerable [[sandstone]] in the Northern Part. the soil is generally 2d rate Although in the North Eastern Part there is some good farming Land; the timber is mostly [[Sugar Maple|sugar]] [[Oak]] [[Tilia americana|Linn]] [[Larix laricina|Tamarack]] & [[Eastern white pine|Pine]]. [[Alder]]s in the swamps the streams are fed by the swamps and are not durable during times of drowth.''<ref>{{cite web|last=Ellis|first=Albert G.|title=Interior Field Notes (Dec. 1851)|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=article&byte=1746036&twp=T023NR002E|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=2013-05-08|author2=Ellis, Frederick S.}}</ref></blockquote>

The town of Cary was split off from the town of Wood in 1901 and named after "Cary", a now-extinct railroad depot within its borders.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.mcmillanlibrary.org/files/docs/placenames.pdf | title=Wood County Place Names | publisher=The University of Wisconsin Press | author=Rudolph, Robert S. | year=1970 | pages=14 | access-date=March 27, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404060659/http://www.mcmillanlibrary.org/files/docs/placenames.pdf | archive-date=April 4, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://townofwood.com/|title=Town History, Town of Wood, Wood County, Wisconsin|website=townofwood.com|access-date=March 27, 2023}}</ref>