Slab City, Wisconsin is an

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Shawano County, Wisconsin Shawano County (pronounced SHAW-no) (originally Shawanaw County) is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,881. Its county seat is Shawano. Shawano County is included in the Shawano, WI ...

, United States, in the town of Hartland. It is located one mile south of Bonduel, on Wisconsin Highway 47.

Transportation

Wisconsin State Highways 29 and 47 run through Slab City, and provide access to both north-south ( Wisconsin State Highway 47) and east-west (

Wisconsin State Highway 29 State Trunk Highway 29 (often called Highway 29, STH-29 or WIS 29) is a state highway running east–west across central Wisconsin. It is a major east–west corridor connecting the Twin Cities and the Chippewa Valley with Wausau ...

) trade routes that span the entire state. The community is well connected to large cities, such as

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along Hwy 47 and Green Bay along Hwy 29. An old alignment of State Highway 47 ran more centrally through the community. The route of the highway was changed on the weekend of October 1, 1950 to run alongside the hill Slab City is situated upon, rather than over it. The old road, which is to say Slab City's original main road, still has many of the community's population living along it, and is called "Old 47".

Economy

From 1995 to 2006, the small community was also home to its own microbrewery, called Slab City Brewery, which had a beer named Old 47, after the (former) highway that runs through the center of town and still bears that name.

References

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