Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Holton’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Holton yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Holton is a town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 859 at the 2020 census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 873 in 2010, 859 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Holton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
M. N. Schill was born at Ashford, in Fond du Lac county. Wis., February 9, 1872, and after his school days remained on the home farm for some years and then, in partnership with three others, bought a section of timberland in the town of Holton, built a mill there which they operated for one year. After selling his interest in the mill Mr. Schill came to Edgar where he was in the saloon and hotel business for six years, then became interested in handling livestock and later added lumber, in January, 1913, becoming associated in the present large
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M. N. Schill was born at Ash ford, in Fond du Lac county. Wis., February 9, 1872, and after his school days remained on the home farm for some years and then, in partnership with three others, bought a section of timberland in the town of Holton, built a mill there whichthey operated for one year. After selling his interest in the mill Mr. Schill came to Edgar where he was in the saloon and hotel business for six years, then became interested in handling livestock and later added lumber, in January, 1913. becoming associated in the present large
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Holton itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 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.
