Lublin

History

U.S. government surveyors walked through the forested area around the future Lublin in 1847 and again in 1854, marking section lines and assessing timber and mill sites. Loggers followed, with settlers close behind. James O'Neill started his sawmill at what would become Neillsville in 1847, and Michael McAffrey settled in what would become Thorp in 1871. By 1897 the Northwestern Lumber Company's railroad was at Mitterhofer, seven miles west of the future site of Lublin, with a temporary logging spur reaching to a mile south of Lublin, hauling logs out to Northwestern's mill in Stanley. Some of the first settlers in Roosevelt were Konczak, Rajewski, Twardowski, and four Ogurek brothers, who in 1902 bought land from a lumber company and started a sawmill at Whipple Dam four miles southwest of the future site of Lublin. The purchase was facilitated by land agent Marion Durski. Land agents other than Durski sold land around Lublin for other land companies. Some were less than honest, assuring the immigrants in their "old country" language that an inexpensive forty in this strange land would easily become a bountiful farm, when the reality was that it would take decades of hard work to untangle fields from stumps and rock. and Holy Assumption Orthodox churches were built. The railroad used a box car for a depot until 1911, when it built a permanent depot. A sawmill opened, which converted to a box factory and ran into the 1930s. Over the years the village had a blacksmith, a butcher shop, a hotel/boarding house, a wagon builder, a livery, a harness shop, restaurants, a hardware store, feed mills, grocery stores, a creamery, a bank from 1919 to 1933, a dance hall, the Lublin-Club theater, and other businesses. Lublin incorporated as a village in 1915, with 236 people.…

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  358
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  341
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  337
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  327
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  312
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  294
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  279
• Canada Goose (canadensis Group)

  Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  261

Largest nearby schools

• Gilman High
  High · Gilman · 152 students · 16.9:1 ratio
• Gilman Elementary
  Elementary · Gilman · 150 students · 12.5:1 ratio
• eSucceed Charter School
  Other · Gilman · 65 students · 21.7:1 ratio