Maple Works, Wisconsin

Maple Works, also called Mapleworks was a hamlet in the town of Grant, Clark County, Wisconsin, United States. At one time it was a busy rural center with two stores, a saloon, a post office and several residences. According to the tables contained in the 1895 The New 11 x 14 Atlas of the World (New York:Rand McNally Corporation, 1895), Maple Works had a population of 62. It is no longer extant.

History

Maple Works was located a half mile east of the village of Granton at the corner of Fremont and Romandka Roads.^[1] In 1857, Nelson Marsh from Pennsylvania settled in the area, coming with an ox team by way of Sparta and cutting a temporary road through the forest. He established a farm and tavern which served as a stagecoach stopping place on the old stage route from Neillsville to Stevens Point which was established in 1858. Marsh was the first postmaster of Maple Works,^[2] serving in that capacity until the post office was abolished in the 1890s. The name was initially intended to be Maplewood, but because of unclear handwriting the application for a post office was interpreted as Mapleworks and so remained.^[3] When Granton was established in 1890, many buildings were moved from Mapleworks to the new village.^[4]

Notes

↑ Communities of Clark County, Wisconsin
↑ German Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church
↑ Winn, Mrs. F.E. "The Story of Granton and How Maple Works Got its Name", in: Clark County Centennial Corporation. The Book of the Years: the Story of the Men Who Made Clark County, as Told in Pictures and Type for the Clark County Centennial, 1853-1953, Celebration and Pageant, Neillsville, Wisconsin, Permanent Memorial of an Historical Occasion, July 1–4, 1953 Neillsville, Wisconsin, 1953.
↑ Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn (1918). James O'Neill, ed. History of Clark County, Wisconsin, Volume 2. H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co. p. 639.

Municipalities and communities of Clark County, Wisconsin, United States

County seat: Neillsville

Cities	Abbotsford‡ Colby‡ Greenwood Loyal Neillsville Owen Stanley‡ Thorp

Villages	Curtiss Dorchester‡ Granton Unity‡ Withee

Towns	Beaver Butler Colby Dewhurst Eaton Foster Fremont Grant Green Grove Hendren Hewett Hixon Hoard Levis Longwood Loyal Lynn Mayville Mead Mentor Pine Valley Reseburg Seif Sherman Sherwood Thorp Unity Warner Washburn Weston Withee Worden York

CDPs	Chili Humbird

Unincorporated communities	Atwood Bright Christie Clark Columbia Eadsville Eidsvold Globe Hemlock Junction Lombard Longwood Lynn Nevins Reseburg Riplinger Sherwood Shortville Sidney Spokeville Tioga Veefkind Willard

Ghost towns	Kurth Maple Works Trow Worden

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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