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"History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881"
Porterville
(-as transcribed from page 343)
This is a lumber manufacturing village about six miles below Eau Claire on the Chippewa River.
Among the early settlers near the village were Washington Churchill and Nelson Cooley, who came, the latter in 1855 and the former in 1856.
The mills, of which there are two, were built by Charles Warner, and subsequently bought by G. E. Porter. The establishment was once burned, but was rebuilt. It is now carried on by the Northwestern Lumber Company.
"History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881"
Porterville
(-as transcribed from page 343)
This is a lumber manufacturing village about six miles below Eau Claire on the Chippewa River.
Among the early settlers near the village were Washington Churchill and Nelson Cooley, who came, the latter in 1855 and the former in 1856.
The mills, of which there are two, were built by Charles Warner, and subsequently bought by G. E. Porter. The establishment was once burned, but was rebuilt. It is now carried on by the Northwestern Lumber Company.