Garrison Island A Wisconsin R. island at sec 24 T22N, R5E, within the Wisconsin Rapids city limits. Named in honor of Frank Garrison. See Edwards Is. Edwards Island A Wisconsin R Island within the Wisconsin Rapids city limits at sec 24, T22N, R5E. Edwards is, Garrison Is, Lyons Is and Witter Is are named for their respective original owners John Edwards, Frank Garrison, Clark Lyon and J D Witter. Acting on behalf of the city, Theodore Brazeau persueded each owner to transfer his island to the city with the understanding that it would thereafter be officially name in his honor. Garrison School See Pail Factory School Pail Factory School A school in SW sec 24, T22N,R5E, AT Hurleytown. Evidently it was named after John Rablin's pail and tub factory at the site. It was later called Garrison School, apparently after Frank Garrison who operated a sawmill at the site and then joined with J D Witter and John Edwards in forming the Centralia Pulp and Water Power Co which in 1888 establinshed a paper mill there. Garrison's Slough Formerly a slough on the Wisconsin R within the Wisconsin Rapids city limits. The slough is mentioned in a description of the Wisconsin R Flood of 1880 which states that when the Daly and Sampson boom in Garrison's Slough collapsed under the pressure of the flood waters, the logs which were kept in the slough were swept against the pilings of the Green Bay and Minnesota RR bridge "across the slough".Also, in a report printed in the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, Dec 4, 1920, C B Garrison states that his father, Orestes Garrison, had riparian rights along the W bank of the Wisconsin R. These reports indicate that the slough wasalong the W bank of the river probably near Nine Acre Is in sec 8, T22N, R6E.