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Short Desciption: packed name of Stevens Point was allowed to remain,. even as. it. ever should be.
1. Stevens Point Journal, Jan. 19. 1901. ...
Content Inside: STEVENS POINT, The Villagfe of It is generally accepted as a fact - although there are no documents to sustain it - that Stevens Point was named after George Stevens who in 1839 used the "point" or peninsula on the Wisconsin River at the foot of modern Main Street to launch his supply canoes for the journey north to Big Bull Falls (Wausau) where he built a saw mill in 1840. The most oft-repeated version of the naming of the village is provided by Sherman, himself a pioneer of 1848, less than a decade after Stevens passed through. The Sherman version, in brief, follows: "In 1839, bidding his (i.e. Stevens) family and friends goodbye, he, with John Fox, a millwright, started for the Pineries. .. In Illinois he purchased two yoke of oxen and a wag;on, hired Daniel D. Dillie as a teamster to drive, and after loading the supplies, started for the




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