Dexterville is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in the town of
Dexter
Dexter may refer to:
People
* Dexter (given name)
* Dexter (surname)
* Dexter (singer), Brazilian rapper Marcos Fernandes de Omena (born 1973)
* Famous Dex, also known as Dexter, American rapper Dexter Tiewon Gore Jr. (born 1993)
Places United ...
,
Wood County,
Wisconsin
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, United States.
It is located at the intersection of
Wisconsin Highway 80
State Trunk Highway 80 (abbreviated as Highway 80, STH-80 or WIS 80) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It runs north–south in southwest and west central Wisconsin from just south of Marshfield, near the geographic cente ...
and
Wisconsin Highway 54
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Route description Minnesota state line to Plo ...
.
History
Dexterville was founded in about 1848. In 1850, the sawmilling magnate
George Hiles moved to the area and set up a lumbermill in Dexterville. Dexter township may be named after
Dexter, Michigan
Dexter is a city in Washtenaw County, Michigan, in the United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 4,500.
Established in 1830 as a village, Dexter was incorporated as a city on November 20, 2014.
History
On Mar ...
, the native home of a first settler, although folk etymology maintains the township is named after the mule of a local pioneer. Hiles was granted a post office for Dexterville in 1858. He created the Milwaukee, Dexterville, and Northern Railroad in 1887 to carry timber from the area. The railroad was purchased by the
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P), better known as the Milwaukee Road , was a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwest and Northwest of the United States from 1847 until 1986.
The company experienced financi ...
a few years later, and passed through the community in 1890.
The Dexterville Dam is located on the southern edge of Lake Dexter; it dams the
Yellow River
The Yellow River, also known as Huanghe, is the second-longest river in China and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system on Earth, with an estimated length of and a Drainage basin, watershed of . Beginning in the Bayan H ...
, creating Dexter Lake. The dam was created by
Wood County to provide waterfront for the current Dexter County Park. A county worker died performing maintenance on the dam in 2009.
Notable people
*
Amos E. Germer, lawyer and politician, lived in Dexterville.
['Wisconsin Blue Book 1899,' Biographical Sketch of Amos E. Germer, pg. 792]
Notes
External links
1909 plat map of Dexterville1928 plat map
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Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Wood County, Wisconsin