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The village of Plain [8] is located on Wisconsin Highway 23 and County Road B in the Township of Franklin. The area of Plain was originally known as Cramer's Corners [ 9 ] after four Cramer brothers (John, Jeremiah, Adam and Solomon, Sr.) moved to the Plain area in the early 1850s.
The Tim Thering Octagon Barn built in 1907 is an historic octagonal barn built by Edgar Carpenter located north of Plain, Wisconsin.
The city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin is located on the southern border of the plain’s northwest end, and is the region’s largest city with a population of 61,704. Other principal cities in the Central Plain region include Chippewa Falls and Menomonie in the northwest, as well as Stevens Point and Wisconsin Rapids along the Wisconsin River.
List of Wisconsin Municipalities in Alphabetical Order; Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Wisconsin Cities, Villages, Townships and Unincorporated Places Listing; Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. State and local government statistics from the State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2015-2016; League of Wisconsin Municipalities.
Salem Evangelical Church in Plain, Wisconsin, also known as Salem United Methodist Church of Honey Creek Township, is a Gothic Revival church built in 1875. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1] The congregation, which was formed in 1844, was the focus of the Swiss community. [2]
Towns to the north are Westfield and Washington, on the south is Spring Green, on the east are Honey Creek and Troy, and on the west is Bear Creek. In 1899, a town hall building was built by Rob and Albert Nachreiner and was located at 915 Wachter Avenue in Plain, Wisconsin. The building replaced a wagon maker shop owned by Moses Tunstall. [3]
The flat plain in which these bluffs lie is located in the southwest portion of Wisconsin's Central Plain geographic region, and was formed in part by sediments falling to the bottom of Glacial Lake Wisconsin. This flat plain consists of sandy deposits and contains many bogs that were left over from Glacial Lake Wisconsin. Many of these bogs ...
Iowa County was formed in 1829 from the Crawford County land south of the Wisconsin River. [1] Brown County's southern portion was used to form Milwaukee County in 1834. [1] The state of Wisconsin was created from Wisconsin Territory on May 29, 1848, with 28 counties.