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History. Downtown Tomah, Wisconsin, looking south on Superior Avenue. Tomah was founded by Robert E. Gillett in 1855 [3] [4] and incorporated as a city in 1883, [5] but the charter was not issued until 1894. [6] It is named after Thomas Carron (ca. 1752–1817), a trader at Green Bay who had integrated into the Menominee tribe. [7]
The Tomah Indian Industrial School, which opened in 1893, was an off-reservation, government boarding school in Wisconsin located along a main railroad that connected Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. It provided education for children from the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, who were referred to at the time as the “Winnebago" by white settlers ...
Geography. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 31.5 square miles (81.6 km 2), all of it land.. Demographics. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,194 people, 428 households, and 338 families residing in the town.
History. The library was constructed in 1915 to serve the City of Tomah and the surrounding area. It is a Carnegie library. In 1911 Ernest Buckley, who was a successful geologist, left the city of Tomah $12,000 to be used for a park or library. The city leaders set aside $7,000 for a library and requested a grant of $10,000 from the Carnegie ...
Tomah station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Tomah, Wisconsin, served by Amtrak's daily Empire Builder. The station house is a wooden structure that was originally built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad . [2]
Lemonweir River. The Lemonweir River is a river in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. [1] It is a tributary of the Wisconsin River [2] as the Lemonweir River originates near Tomah in Monroe County and flows into Juneau County through New Lisbon and Mauston before converging into the Wisconsin River. The Menominee name of the river is Manōnaeh-Sipiah ...
Tomah Middle School (grades 6–8) High school Tomah High School. Tomah High School (grades 9–12) Tomah High School is located on 901 Lincoln Avenue in Tomah, Wisconsin. Tomah High School offers honors and advanced placement classes. It has a pre-engineering program called "Project Lead the Way". The ACE Academy allows students to participate ...
The Chicago and Tomah Railroad was a proposal of D.K. Williams and was intended to connect the northern forests of Wisconsin around Tomah with the Galena and Southern Wisconsin Railroad which had reached Platteville in 1875. The Galena Road was a 3 ft ( 914 mm) narrow gauge line, so the Chicago and Tomah was constructed at the same gauge.