The story so far
Price, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Price yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 228 to 221 (-3%).
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History · Price
17% of Price’s homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1973 on and old-book passages.
0on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Price’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Price’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.From the old history books
What they wrote about Price in 1922
Passages that mention Price, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Langlade County, Wisconsin, from U. S. government survey to present time, with biographical sketches1922 · page 235Read the page →
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Townships 34 of ranges 13 and 14 East were detached from Price and made a part of Forest County by Chapter 436 of Wisconsin statutes of 1885. This left Price township containing townships 32, 33 and 34 of Range 12 or all of the present area of Price township and Ainsworth township. It remained in that status until 1905, when townships 33 and 34 of Range 12 East were detached and created into Ainsworth town-
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History of Langlade County, Wisconsin, from U. S. government survey to present time, with biographical sketches1922 · page 185Read the page →
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1879). When Langlade County was organized Ainsworth was a part of Polar township. In November, 1883, it was detached from Polar township and became a part of Price township. It remained under the jurisdiction of Price township but one year. November 12, 1884, the county board was requested to organize Aetna township out of the present territory of Ainsworth and townships 34 of Ranges 13 and
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.
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Price on the map, 1973 to 1990
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Price. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1973Pickerel sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Price.
Famous people
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Nobody well known was born in Price itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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Justin BergAmerican baseball player · b. 1984
Places that used to be
Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Hamlets and corners on the map
BryantSherry Junction
Gone or out of use
Green Valley Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Price
BentEvergreen
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.
Questions about Price’s history
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
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.