Marshfield, Wisconsin

DuBay started his trading post 40 miles (64 km) east on the Wisconsin River around 1818.

A sawmill was built at Nekoosa in 1832.

A sawmill was built at Neillsville around 1847.

== History == In 1851 and 1853, when the area was still forested, surveyors working for the U.S.

The first building at Marshfield came in 1872.

The city was incorporated in 1883.

By 1885 he had added a general store, a planing mill, a furniture factory and a flour and feed mill.

In 1887, a fire started and got out of control.

In 1890 a line to Neillsville was built.

In 1891 a line was built from Centralia (now Wisconsin Rapids), another was built to Greenwood, and a third from Wausau to Marshfield came from the north.

In 1901 a second line was built from Wisconsin Rapids to Marshfield.

In 1903 38 passenger trains stopped daily in Marshfield.

In 1907 the first cold storage plant was built in town, to store local cheese before shipping it by rail to larger markets.

In 1916, six local doctors formed a group practice clinic in the second story of the Thiel building downtown, calling themselves Marshfield Clinic.

In one of Marshfield's old Victorian houses, a once-hidden paper-hanger's signature boasts, "...1917, when the Germans licked the World." Feelings were again mixed during World ...

By 1921 the Blum plant was making 3,500 boxes a day.

In 1923 a spokesman for the Soo Line Railroad said that Marshfield shipped more dairy products than any other city in the United States.

In the summer of 1945, 243 German POWs were brought in to fill a labor shortage at the canning factory north of the current Wildwood Park.

The Frey brothers started building Rollohomes in 1947 and were followed by other manufacturers of mobile and modular homes.

=== 2000 census === As of the 2000 census, there were 18,800 people, 8,235 households, and 4,866 families residing in the city.

=== 2010 census === As of the 2010 census, there were 19,118 people, 8,777 households, and 4,995 families residing in the city.

Around 2011 three new plants opened on the east side of town to process sand for hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells.

It is a principal city of the Marshfield–Wisconsin Rapids micropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Wood County and had a population of 74,207 in 2020.

== Demographics == As of the 2022 American Community Survey, there are 8,807 estimated households in Marshfield with an average of 2.09 persons per household.