Unity Township

~~Community~~

Clark County, Wisconsin

• Riplinger (Osborne) West View 1912

• The Community of Riplinger; Riplinger's 4th of July Float

1916

• Riplinger Post Office

• Evensen, Martin--Unity, WI Mailman

• Unity, WI Band

Riplinger/Osborne Notes & Memories

• Riplinger

• In August of 1901 the F&NE RR was putting in telegraph poles from Schilling Station (Beaver twp) to Bright's farm (up on CTY N, Longwood). A couple weeks later, was mention of the turntable soon being moved from Schilling Station to Bright's farm also. Ethan Scearce

• In its early days, Riplinger was a riproaring logging town in its day, with a population of over 2000, I'm told.  Today (2005), the cheese factory in Ripplinger is still standing (was inhabited by Jeff Kilty, the last I knew). It was owned by Mullins Cheese (of Knowlton, Wis) for years; my parents shipped milk here (and also stored fruit, especially strawberries, held over for further sales) in the cooler. (I know these streets but not their names.) The cheese factory is along the street that connects CTY Q and the north-south gravel road (Romadka? just guessing!!) on the east side of town. Where this street intersects with CTY Q, an old, two-story store building stands (The last I knew, was still there.) Owned by Bill Lyons, (whom my father knew, but I hardly ever met; now deceased) it was a grocery store (and more?) in the early '70s. I think apartment(s) were overhead. Across the street is another very old store building; very dilapidated (maybe gone, now...). Where this street continued across CTY Q, it curved around across the tracks to a feed mill. My first recollection is that it was O.W.Trindal (who lived on south of town on the possible Romadka road; Darrell Klassen now lives in the residence). Next, it was owned by Smith Feeds in Loyal (still in their Loyal operation; a Riplinger rep was Danny Meyer, still living in the area.) It was managed for years by Gabe and Lois... can't remember their surname, now, but I can still visualize them. They eventually took over the business on their own. But it eventually closed down (as so many of the small rural feedstores have). It was later torn down; not sure if anything still at the site... South of Bill Lyon's store is a tavern or two, along CTY Q. South of the tracks was / is, yet? a sprawling one-story building, also on the east side (think this was from a box factory; Smith Feeds used it as storage). The depot is completely gone, now; for years it stood in a field NE of the first curve of CTY Q, north of town. The old brick school building still stands, a block north of the cheese factory. Nearby is a church (Lutheran, I think). Vague remnants of the old RR grade run SW from town. Ethan Scearce

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