Oakwood was a former

unincorporated area An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

and post office in the

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 ori ...

of Oak Creek in Milwaukee County,

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, in the area roughly corresponding to what is now Oakwood Road between South 13th Street and South Howell Avenue (sections 29-32). It had a

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with two daily stops, and was the location of Oakwood High School from 1888 to 1971. In Turner, Turner and Reinsch's 1898 ''Hand Book of Wisconsin: Its History and Geography ... and Resources, Industries, and Commerce'', it is listed as having a population of 198, and is described as follows:

It has a general store, two hotels, and a blacksmith shop.Turner, Lura J., Joseph M. Turner and Paul Samuel Reinsch. ''Hand Book of Wisconsin: Its History and Geography ... and Resources, Industries, and Commerce''. L. J. Turner and J. M. Turner, 1898; p. 224
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References

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