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The citizens of Wausau take great pride in their community, many people were born and raised here and have either stayed or return to raise their family. www.ci.wausau.wi.us

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It was the Wisconsin River that first drew settlers to this area originally known as Big Bull Falls, either named by Indians or early fur traders. An 1836 treaty transferring land along the Wisconsin River from the Indians to federal ownership sent George Stevens lumbermen up the river two years later to find suitable places for turning the pine forests into lumber. It is decidedly the best mill site I ever saw or heard of in the Union, wrote George Stevens after reaching Big Bull Falls in the Summer of 1839. By 1840 the Stevens sawmill was processing the pine forests into lumber. It was not long before other mills began springing up along the riverbanks of Central Wisconsin; this was the coming of the lumbermen. The death of the forests became the birth of a town. The Pinery, magical words 150 years ago, is a legend today.

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