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Dewhurst Township ~~History~~ Clark County, Wisconsin
Historical Accounts
Hatfield
The History of Trow; by Bob Gile
Trow was named for Alvin S. Trow, a lumberman who lived in Merrillan in the 1880's and 90's. He owned Wakefield, Trow & Co., who operated a sawmill on Lower Lake southeast of Merrillan and had extensive camps in the area of Dewhurst that was known as Trow. His company operated a steam driven "tram" up into their pinery and also had a line into Merrillan that intersected with the Green Bay & Minnesota. Although references to it in the newspaper were of a "tram" a section of rail that was found in that area indicates it may have been a regular logging railroad with iron rails, and if so, would have been the first such operation in Wisconsin (but a friend and I were never able to prove it to the satisfaction of the "authorities"). I would presume there might have been some farms in the area and a map of Clark County from around the turn of the century does show a siding and some type of structure, probably a passenger shelter at the Trow location, which is where the road running north from the Arnold Creek bridge on Hwy. 95 hits the old Omaha Marshfield Branch roadbed. Mr. Trow was also one of the first cranberry growers in the Millston area and owned lands there. He had a large dairy farm north of Merrillan. He was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly from Jackson County for several terms. Prior to living in Merrillan, he was from Oshkosh and operated a flour mill and a steamboat line on the Fox River.
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