Fenwood

History

Fenwood was platted by the railroad in 1891. It was named from woods near the townsite at a fen, or marshy area. The village of Fenwood, Marathon Co., Wisconsin was platted by Alfred L. Carey, the attorney for the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad, November 18, 1891, about the time when that railroad struck the place; it was incorporated as a village from part of the town of Wien, April 16, 1904, and its first representative in the county board of Marathon county was W. A. Somers. At the time the railroad struck the place, C. S. Curtis of Wausau erected a large saw mill, which was in operation until 1910, when it ceased sawing. At that time there was a large profitable cheese factory in the village, owned and supplied by farmers in the towns of Wien and Cleveland. John Brinkmann and Emil Szebsdat, under firm name of Brinkmann & Szeljsdat owned a general store, and George Wetterau kept the tavern or hotel in the village. Emil Szebsdat was also the village postmaster. There was a nice state-graded frame schoolhouse with two “departments”: principal, Vallborg Hermanson, and assistant principal, Miss Gertrude Kurtzweil - an average attendance of forty-five pupils in both departments. There were two German Evangelical Lutheran congregations, holding their services in the schoolhouse and attended by the resident ministers of the town of Wien. https://wiclarkcountyhistory.org/neighbors/marathon/history/1913FenwoodHistory.htm In 1911, the R. Connor Company of Marshfield, with its Marathon County mill located at Stratford, set to work clear- ing two sections of land four miles southeast of the village. This project, no doubt, had much to do in checking the out- ward flow of workmen and gave fresh energy to the entire community. A spur track extending from the…

Geography

Fenwood is located at (44.865483, -90.013757). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• Stratford Elementary
  Elementary · Stratford · 340 students · 13.6:1 ratio
• Marathon Elementary
  Elementary · Marathon · 334 students · 11.9:1 ratio
• Edgar Elementary
  Elementary · Edgar · 268 students · 10.7:1 ratio
• Stratford High
  High · Stratford · 268 students · 13.4:1 ratio
• Marathon High
  High · Marathon · 263 students · 13.2:1 ratio
• Edgar High
  High · Edgar · 201 students · 12.6:1 ratio
• Stratford Middle
  Middle · Stratford · 191 students · 15.9:1 ratio
• Marathon Venture Academy
  Middle · Marathon · 156 students · 17.3:1 ratio