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History · Hewitt

22% of Hewitt’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1899 on and old-book passages.

0on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Hewitt’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Hewitt are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18994 editions of the USGS map, 1899 to 1990. Watch Hewitt change.
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On the map

Hewitt on the map, 1899 to 1990

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hewitt. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Hewitt on the 1899 USGS mapHewitt on the 1902 USGS mapHewitt on the 1973 USGS mapHewitt on the 1990 USGS map1899Wausau sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hewitt.

The story so far

Hewitt, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hewitt yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Hewitt is a town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States, founded in 1894. It is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 636 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated community of Glandon is located in the town.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 606 to 636 (+5%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Hewitt in 1913

Passages that mention Hewitt, cut from the printed page as they were published.

exist until lately and logs were brought to the logging spur track of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, which runs into the town of Hewitt from the city of Merrill and took the logs to the Wright and Heinemann mills in Merrill and to Barker & Stewart in Wausau.
History of Marathon County, Wisconsin1913 · page 575Read the page →
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exist until lately and logs were brought to the logging spur track of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, which runs into the town of Hewitt from the city of Merrill and took the logs to the Wright and Heinemann mills in Merrill and to Barker & Stewart in Wausau.

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1906, at seventy-three years of age. He was known as an industrious •man, good citizen and successful farmer. His widow survives and two sons : Herman and August, the latter being a resident of the town of Hewitt, and four daughters : Vine, Rose, Mary and Guste, respectively, who reside in Chicago,…
History of Marathon County, Wisconsin1913 · page 837Read the page →
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1906, at seventy-three years of age. He was known as an industrious •man, good citizen and successful farmer. His widow survives and two sons : Herman and August, the latter being a resident of the town of Hewitt, and four daughters : Vine, Rose, Mary and Guste, respectively, who reside in Chicago, Nebraska, Chicago, and Montana. Herman Ramthun grew up on his father's farm and attended the country schools, after which he learned the carpenter trade and more or less devoted himself to this work for the next twenty years. In the

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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Hewitt, 1899 to 1926

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1899On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 20th century
  4. 1908Post officeThe Glandon post office opens
  5. 1926Post officeThe Glandon post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

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Famous people

Famous people close to Hewitt

Nobody well known was born in Hewitt itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Marissa MayerAmerican business executive and engineer, forme… · b. 1975
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Jalen JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born December 2001) · b. 2001
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Wendy BoglioliAmerican swimmer · b. 1955
Gloria CoatesAmerican composer · b. 1933
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Thomas T. MoultonAmerican sound engineer · b. 1896
John BradleyNavy corpsman in World War II, flagraiser at Iw… · b. 1923
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Glandon, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Glandon
Gone or out of use
McMynn SchoolschoolTrappe River SchoolschoolTrinity Churchchurch
1cemetery inside Hewitt
Calvary

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

EastonIts storyBHarrisonIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTexasIts storyB−AckleyIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.