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Maple Creek Township, together with Liberty Township, was known until 1853 as the "Indian land beyond the Wolf." Settlement did not begin util about 1849 or 1850 when George Washington Law came with Joseph Turney and young Thomas Nickel to gather tanbark from the hemlock trees that grew in great profusion in certain areas...From 1853 to 1860 the present town was known to its settlers as the Town of Embarrass, named for the river. This old town included also the Town of Liberty, which separated from Embarrass in 1858. Embarrass was changed in name to Maple Creek, also the name of the creek which runs through the town...
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1895 - Maple Creek
Maple Creek, township, Outagamie co., Wis. Pop. 746.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
Maple Creek, township, Outagamie co., Wis. Pop. 746.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
1906
Maplecreek, a township (town) of Outagamie co., Wis. Pop. in 1900, 800.
Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
Maplecreek, a township (town) of Outagamie co., Wis. Pop. in 1900, 800.
Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
1911 - Maple Creek
Town of Maple Creek. - For the most part this town is adapted to farming; it owed much of its early development to the magnificent pine timber with which its slopes were covered. As before stated, the first corners gathered tan bark from the hemlock trees which grew in profusion in some sections and furnished occasional employment for a number of years. It was logging the great pines, however, that gave the early settlers employment by which to subsist until their farms could produce a sufficiency. Some of those who logged extensively in the Maple Creek region, were Drew, Campbell, Smith, Gainor and Garland. One season as high as seven million feet of logs were put in, most of them being landed on Maple and Bear creeks, two dams to assist the drive being put in Maple creek. After the war the logging operation included the hardwood timber of which there was a vast amount, both maple and oak, and until the middle 70s there was a wealth of timber. During this time the settlers were... Read MORE...
Town of Maple Creek. - For the most part this town is adapted to farming; it owed much of its early development to the magnificent pine timber with which its slopes were covered. As before stated, the first corners gathered tan bark from the hemlock trees which grew in profusion in some sections and furnished occasional employment for a number of years. It was logging the great pines, however, that gave the early settlers employment by which to subsist until their farms could produce a sufficiency. Some of those who logged extensively in the Maple Creek region, were Drew, Campbell, Smith, Gainor and Garland. One season as high as seven million feet of logs were put in, most of them being landed on Maple and Bear creeks, two dams to assist the drive being put in Maple creek. After the war the logging operation included the hardwood timber of which there was a vast amount, both maple and oak, and until the middle 70s there was a wealth of timber. During this time the settlers were... Read MORE...
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