Nasonville is an
unincorporated community
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located in the town of
Rock
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,
Wood County,
Wisconsin
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, United States.
History
The name "Nasonville" at one time applied to a vague region commencing about three or four miles southwest of what was to become
Marshfield, and extending towards
Maple Works and
Neillsville in
Clark County Clark County may refer to:
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, since the brothers
Solomon L. and William G. Nason had settled at a site about eleven miles southwest of Marshfield in the Spring of 1855. The Nasons were from
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,
Maine
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. They settled permanently in what would later be termed Nasonville proper in September 1856, buying land in Section 5, Town 24 N, Range 2 E (
Rock Township), and also buying several adjoining sections. Solomon later donated a portion of this land, on which the
hamlet
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of
Lindsey Lindsey may refer to :
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would be erected. Solomon Nason established and kept a store in Nasonville, and when a Nasonville post office was established was appointed postmaster in 1859, serving in that capacity until 1878. The Nasonville post office closed permanently in 1900.
Notable people
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Solomon Nason
Solomon L. Nason (December 16, 1825 – April 1, 1899) was an American farmer and lumberman from Nasonville, Wisconsin who served one term as a Greenback Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Clark, Lincoln, Taylor and Wo ...
, pioneer, legislator
Biographical Sketch of Solomon Nason
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Notes
Unincorporated communities in Wood County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
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