Made-to-Order Farms
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- 1921
- Description
Organized by Ben Faast around 1918, the Wisconsin Colonization Company sought to establish a prosperous city of farmers on land formerly used for logging. Faast named the town Ojibwa and, working with UW professor Frans Aust, developed a completed town plan that included a zoo, parks, and a grand boulevard. The Colonization Company heavily promoted the agricultural resources of Sawyer County and offered potential settlers "made-to-order farms" consisting of land, a house, a barn, 2 pigs, 6 chickens, tools, and seeds. The largest ethnic group to settle in the area were Poles, drawn to the farming life familiar to them in Europe. Ojibwa was only a moderate success as buyers found that the profits were small in comparison to the amount of work and capital--a situation mirrored throughout the cutover
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Wisconsin Colonization Company
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Collection
- Pamphlet Collection
- Publisher
- Western Colonization Company
- Subjects
- Polish Americans
Farms
Cities and towns
Cutover lands
Deforestation
Farmers
Emigration and immigration - Location
- Sawyer County
Ojibwa
Wisconsin - Type
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- Language
- English
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- Wisconsin Colonization Company. Made-to-Order Farms. 1921. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/47114. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- Wisconsin Colonization Company, (1921) Made-to-Order Farms. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/47114
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- Wisconsin Colonization Company. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/47114>.