Shanagolden (community), Wisconsin
| Shanagolden, Wisconsin | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
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| Coordinates: 46°07′03″N 90°38′10″W / 46.11750°N 90.63611°WCoordinates: 46°07′03″N 90°38′10″W / 46.11750°N 90.63611°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| County | Ashland |
| Town | Shanagolden |
| Elevation | 1,506 ft (459 m) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Area code(s) | 715 & 534 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1580389 |
Shanagolden is an unincorporated community located in the town of Shanagolden, Ashland County, Wisconsin, United States. Shanagolden is located on the East Fork Chippewa River 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Butternut.
In 1901 the newly formed Nash Lumber Company bought 40,000 acres of timber in southern Ashland and Sawyer county. In 1902 and 1903 they selected a site along the Chippewa River and built a sawmill, a boarding house, a store which later housed the post office, homes for workers, a schoolhouse, and a four-mile railroad branch which connected to the Wisconsin Central line at Glidden. The plant consisted of a sawmill, a planing mill and a shingle mill.
The little mill town in northern Wisconsin was named "Shanagolden" after the fishing village in County Limerick, Ireland from which the Nashes' ancestors came. Unusual for the time, the Nashes preserved virgin timber around town for the looks. And they let workers buy lots and build their own homes as they chose, so the two streets weren't lined with identical boxes. The Nashes themselves had the Milwaukee architect Alexander Eschweiler design one of their homes and the meeting house/reading room of the Shanagolden Improvement Club, a women's club. Recreation included picnics, fairs, parties, fishing, hunting, baseball, trap shooting, card parties, and covert drinking at the livery stable. (The town was officially dry.)
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