Hi Jane, This book sounds like quite a find. I am interested in the Garrison name. The family arrived in Centralia, Grand Rapids (Wisconisn Rapids)in 1854. At one time there was a Garrison school and Garrison Island Park. Original business was in lumber - saw mills, then branched out. Names of interest are Orestes d. 1874, Viola d. 1899, Frank d. 1905, Elma Garrison Bensly d. Mar. 1861, Charles, Llewellyn, and Henry D. d. Mar. 1866. I am also interested in the editions of local newspapers dating back as early as 1858 in hopes to find more info on the deaths of Henry and Elma Garrison Bensly. Thank you Sue PS - you may get more email than you bargined for! From: JVB56@aol.com Reply-To: WIWOOD-L@rootsweb.com To: WIWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WIWOOD] Wood Cty Place Names Will do lookups Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:48:27 EDT I just got some more stuff from my grandma's things and there is a book entitled: Wood County Place Names by Robert S Rudolph 1970 " In the case of this study of the place names of Wood County, WI , findings are based on copies of maps of the area, including real estate maps and plat, and on county histories, editions of local newspapers dating back as early as 1858, state gazetteers listing business enterprises and prominent citizens of the area, railroad records and histories, notes of the original surveyors, records of early censuses, interviews with elderly citizens and people interested in local history and personal observation of the sites. The study includes names of railroads, towns, cities, flag stations, spur lines, postoffices, rural schools, corners, additions and subdivisions of villages and cities (through 1928), parks , all streams and bodies of water, (including swamps and marshes), all named elevations, roads and streets with historical significance, important dams, lumber mills withhistorical significance, and a lumbering camp(Wards) whose name was for a time relatively important as a place name. Certain information has been sought about each name: The pronunciation of the name, the precise location of the named feature, the type of feature, the several names a feature has had over the years, the approximate date range of the use of the name, spelling variants, and the origin of the name. I will be happy to do lookups in this book Thanks Jane Richards Barker JVB56@aol.com ==== WIWOOD Mailing List ==== Visit Wood County WI at: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/> or http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/WLHN/WoodCoWI/ WIWOOD-L Listowner: Marcia Ann KUEHL <makkuehl@yahoo.com> _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.