Foster Junction 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 ...

located in Ashland County,

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, United States. The community was named for George E. Foster, a partner in the Mellon Lumber Company. The company founded Foster Junction in 1910. Foster Junction failed to thrive, and many of its buildings were dismantled and relocated to Mellen. Foster Junction no longer had any residents by the 1930s.

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Unincorporated communities in Ashland County, Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin {{AshlandCountyWI-geo-stub