Drywood, Wisconsin
Arthur is a town in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 759 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. The unincorporated communities of Cobban, Wisconsin, Cobban, Crescent, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, Crescent, and Drywood, Wisconsin, Drywood are located in the town. Education The town is served by the School District of Cadott Community and the Cornell School District (Cornell, Wisconsin), Cornell School District. History The general area that would become Arthur was first Surveying, surveyed in 1848 by a crew working for the U.S. government. In 1849 a different crew marked all the Section (United States land surveying), section corners of the survey township, township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with Gunter's chain, chain and Solar compass, compass. When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description of the square which became the east half of Arthur and the west part of Colburn: ''T ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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