Editing Greenwood, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
In the years just before settlement, the future site of Greenwood was a hunting ground shared by [[Ojibwe]], [[Menominee]] and [[Ho-Chunk]] people.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tribal Lands Map|url=https://wisconsinfirstnations.org/map/|website=Wisconsin First Nations|publisher=Wisconsin DPI, PBS & UW-School of Education|access-date=2024-11-15}}</ref> The [[Black River (Wisconsin)|Black River]] ran quietly through immense forests until [[Mormon]] loggers came upstream in 1844, working out of a camp downstream from Greenwood's site, cutting [[Pinus strobus|white pine]] logs and floating them down the rivers to be used in their temple in [[Nauvoo, Illinois]].<ref name=Curtiss/>{{rp|pages=35-36}}

In 1847 or 1848 Van Dusen and Waterman built a mill on the west side of the Black River across from where Greenwood would grow. Albert Lambert built another mill nearby. Elijah and Frederick Eaton bought Van Dusen's mill in 1854. A little mill town began to take shape, called ''Eatonville'' for a while.<ref name=Curtiss>{{cite book|last=Curtiss-Wedge|first=Franklin|title=History of Clark County Wisconsin|year=1918|publisher=H.C. Cooper Jr & Co.|location=Chicago & Winona|url=http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wch&CISOPTR=21093&REC=3}}</ref>{{rp|pages=632-633}}

By 1869 the community had a log schoolhouse, several log houses, and two frame houses, and S.C. Honeywell sold a few goods out of his house. The following year Chandler and Brown from [[Black River Falls, Wisconsin|Black River Falls]] opened a store and W.H. Begley opened a hotel. At this time a [[stagecoach]] came up from Black River Falls to Greenwood. The village of Greenwood was platted in 1871. That same year, a four-room frame school was built.<ref name=Curtiss/>{{rp|page=633}}

A fire in 1885 destroyed eight buildings, but the town continued to grow. By 1890 the village had "three general stores, two hardware stores, two meat markets, two [[blacksmith]] shops, two [[millinery]] and dressmaking establishments, one wagon shop, one grocery store, one [[confectionary]] store, one flour and agricultural implement store, one harness shop, one shoe shop, one furniture store and factory, one hotel, one barber shop, one public hall, one [[Odd Fellows]] hall, one [[Methodist Episcopal Church]], one photograph gallery, one [[creamery]] and one sawmill."<ref name=Curtiss/>{{rp|pages=633-634}}

Greenwood was incorporated as a city in 1891, the same year the [[Wisconsin Central Railroad (1871–1899)|Wisconsin Central Railroad]] connected Greenwood to [[Loyal, Wisconsin|Loyal]] and [[Marshfield, Wisconsin|Marshfield]]. In 1895 the [[Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad]] connected from the southwest, and ran its line north to [[Owen, Wisconsin|Owen]]. A fire in 1900 destroyed Greenwood's heading mill.<ref name=Curtiss/>{{rp|pages=634-635}}

By 1918, Greenwood's main industries were agricultural - not lumber. The Greenwood Cheese House and Parafining Station coated the product of surrounding cheese factories in [[Paraffin wax|paraffin]] and shipped it. Greenwood [[Roller mill|Roller Mills]] was a steam-powered mill which produced flour and feed. The [[American Society of Equity]] was a cattle dealer. Eau Claire Creamery Company ran a plant that bought, [[Pasteurization|pasteurized]] and shipped milk.<ref name=Curtiss/>{{rp|page=635}}