In 1899, brothers Wilbur and Henry T. Miner from Vernon County, WI, purchased a 4,000 acre tract inThe site was listed on the U.S.Forest County, Wisconsin Forest County is a county (United States), county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 9,179. Its county seat is Crandon, Wisconsin, Crandon. The Forest County Potawatomi Community ..., where they constructed a sawmill and related settlement known as Minertown. The settlement included a boarding house and company store for those employed by the Miner Lumber Company, as well as aplaning mill A planing mill is a facility that takes cut and seasoned boards from a sawmill and turns them into finished dimensional lumber. Machines used in the mill include the planer and matcher, the molding machines, and varieties of saws. In the planing mil ..., roundhouse, depot, store, a blacksmith shop, a cook shanty, several small four-room houses, and a barn. In 1931, the mill was destroyed by fire and the remaining community was subsequently abandoned. Today, the Minertown-Oneva site is significant for its potential to provide information relevant to late nineteenth century settlement of Forest County, as well as the history of Wisconsin's hardwood logging era.
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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Geography of Forest County, Wisconsin Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Logging communities in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Forest County, Wisconsin Company towns in Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-NRHP-stub