Biron Mill
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This image is from Volume 1 of 100 years of pictorial & descriptive history of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, while the quoted description is from Volume 2. "October 5th, 1840, Gideon Truesdell, Joshua Draper, Paul Kingston and Harrison K. Fay entered Govt. Lots 5 and 7 Sec. 34-23-6, being the land and island whereon the "Biron Mill" was originally built as a saw mill. Tradition has it to say that "Fay & Draper" went down the river with the first lumber sawed at Biron. If this is true then the mill was built before the owners made an entry of the land, which is very likely. The title of this property switched around so that when Francis X. Biron bought it, the deed came to him from Weston, Heldon and Kingston in 1846. Widow Fay was not the one to sell the saw mill property at "Biron" to Francis X. Biron but the successors of the men who entered the land originally so Biron's title came from Weston, Kinston and Heldon. Francis Biron rebuilt the mill that is shown ... in the year 1
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Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa)
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- McMillan Memorial Library
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- No Copyright - In the United States:The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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- Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa). Biron Mill. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/8272. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
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- Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa), Biron Mill. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/8272
- MLA citation style
- Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/8272>.