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Minertown-Oneva
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| Location: | State Trunk Hwy. 32, vicinity of Carter, Wisconsin |
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| Area: | 43.5 acres (17.6 ha)[2] |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 09001315[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | May 4, 2010[1] |
Minertown-Oneva, also known as Minertown, in Forest County, Wisconsin is a historic logging camp built in the early 1900s by Wilbur and Henry T. Miner.[2] It's in the vicinity of Carter, Wisconsin.
According to the National Park Service:
In 1899, brothers Wilbur and Henry T. Miner from Vernon County, WI, purchased a 4,000 acre tract in Forest County, Wisconsin, where they constructed a sawmill and related settlement known as Minertown. The settlement included a boarding house and company store for those employed by the Miner Lumber Company, as well as a planing mill, roundhouse, depot, store, a blacksmith shop, a cook shanty, several small four-room houses, and a barn. In 1931, the mill was destroyed by fire and the remaining community was subsequently abandoned. Today, the Minertown-Oneva site is significant for its potential to provide information relevant to late nineteenth century settlement of Forest County, as well as the history of Wisconsin’s hardwood logging era.[3]
The site was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 2010.[1] The listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service's weekly list of May 28, 2010.[4]
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