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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]
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.
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 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 ...
Tomahawk, Wisconsin. Location of Tomahawk in Lincoln County, Wisconsin. / 45.47444°N 89.73139°W / 45.47444; -89.73139. Tomahawk is a city in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,441 at the 2020 census. [4] The city is located to the northeast of the Town of Tomahawk and is not contiguous with it.
220 East Franklin Street. 43°56′46″N 90°48′29″W. / 43.9461°N 90.8081°W / 43.9461; -90.8081 ( William G. and Anne Williams House) Sparta. 2.5 story Queen Anne-styled house built from 1891 to 1900, with carriage house. William was a banker, register of deeds, and led development of the Williams block downtown.
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 ...
Ed Thompson (Wisconsin politician) Allan Edward " Ed " Thompson (December 25, 1944 – October 22, 2011) was an American businessman and politician. He served as Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin for two non-consecutive terms, and was the Libertarian candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 2002, receiving nearly 11% of the vote in that race.