Editing Cranmoor, Wisconsin (section)

==History==

Southern bits of Cranmoor were surveyed in 1839, early because they were within three miles of the [[Wisconsin River]], touching the "Indian strip" which was sold by the [[Menominee]]s to the U.S. government in the 1836 [[Treaty of the Cedars]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Rosholt|first=Malcolm|title=Pioneers of the Pinery|url=http://www.mcmillanlibrary.org/rosholt/pioneers-of-the-pinery/pionpine/images/00000003.pdf|publisher=Rosholt House|accessdate=May 25, 2013|pages=23–24|year=1979}}</ref>

In the winter of 1851–1852 a crew working for the U.S. government [[Surveying|surveyed]] all the section corners of the land that would become Cranmoor, walking through the woods and probably crossing the marshes on the ice, 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 T22N R4E|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=PLSS&twp=T022NR004E|work=Original Field Notes and Plat Maps, 1833-1866|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=June 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Field Notes for T21N R4E|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=PLSS&twp=T021NR004E|work=Original Field Notes and Plat Maps, 1833-1866|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=June 6, 2013}}</ref> When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description of the six mile square that now includes northwest Cranmoor:
<blockquote>''This Township is very nearly all covered either with Marsh or swamp there is not to exceed in the Township two Sections of land that would admit of cultivation and that in detached parcels, not exceeding 20 acres in any one tract. The division between the open Marsh and swamp, which is more or less timber & extends from the S.W. Corner of the Township to the South east Corner of Section 12, surrounding the corners to Sec. 13. 14. 23. & 24. is an almost impenetrable swamp of Black alders(?) embracing about one Section of land. Timber on Swamp [[Larix laricina|Tamarack]] & small [[Spruce]](?) very thick. water from 6 to 20 inches deep, the marsh is covered with a light crop of grass, water from 12 to 40 inches deep, innumerable small Islands(?) interspered over this Town, the margins of which abound with [[Cranberry|Cranberries]].''<ref>{{cite web|last=Sterling|first=Levi|title=Interior Field Notes (Jan. 1852)|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=article&byte=2422803&isize=L&twp=T022NR004E|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=2013-06-06}}</ref></blockquote>

The Town of Cranmoor was established in 1903, taking its name from the community of [[Cranmoor (community), Wisconsin|Cranmoor]].<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=19 | 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>