Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/10690 Surname: ------------------------- Boy this is a great question, and I can only help a little. Drammen township was set off from the town of Brunswick (to the north) in 1873. The origninal name of the township was Lant. Waldemar Ager (Eau Claire's most famous Norwegian citizen) wrote : "..we have about three thousand persons born in Norway residing in Eau Claire county.[writing in 1914]. Comparatively few of these live in the country, the land in Eau Claire county not being to their liking. There is a strong settlement in the south-west corner of the county, in the towns of Pleasent Valley [my Hanson relatives found this land to their liking] and Drammen, ...The oldest setttlements are in the Pleasant Valley, Drammen and Otter Creek townships." Ager goes on to describe where in Norway most of Eau Claire's Norwegian immigrants came from; Borum iron workers, the Gudbrandsdalen Valley, some from the Trondelagen region and others from Nordland "the land of the midnight sun." The above information comes from the book, "History of Eau Claire County Wisconsin: Past and Present Including an account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County." Editor in Chief Judge William F. Bailey. C.F. Cooper & Co.: Chicago. 1914. Hope this gives you a sense of the landscape of this small part of Eau Claire county!