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History · Weston

27% of Weston’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1953 on.

0on the National Register
27%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Weston’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 Weston are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Weston, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Weston’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Weston’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

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

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Christie
1875–1903
Globe
1890–1908
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
ChristieGlobe
Gone or out of use
Fairview SchoolschoolMound SchoolschoolUncle Sam Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Weston
East SideWest Weston

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

The story

How Weston came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Weston.

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The outline of the six mile square that would become Weston was first surveyed in June 1847 by a crew working for the U.S. government. Then in October of the same year the same crew marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with chain and compass. This survey produced a map which shows some sort of road already arcing roughly along the course of future highway 73 on the high ground east of the Black River, an "Indian Camp" on the east bank of the Black in sections 21 or 22, and a cabin on the west bank in section 4. When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description:

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Weston, 1875 to 1953

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1875Post officeThe Christie post office opens
  3. 1890Post officeThe Globe post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1903Post officeThe Christie post office closes
  6. 1908Post officeThe Globe post office closes
  7. 1953On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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On the map

Weston on the map, 1953 to 1979

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

Weston on the 1953 USGS mapWeston on the 1979 USGS map1953Neillsville sheet · 1:62,500

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Weston

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

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Virginia SatirAmerican psychotherapist & non-fiction author · b. 1916
Dave DudleyAmerican musician · b. 1928
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Jerome P. TheisenAmerican Benedictine monk · b. 1930
Mary LazichAmerican politician · b. 1952
Michael PhairCanadian politician · b. 1950
Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr.United States Army Medal of Honor recipient · b. 1925
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Pine Valley1 historic placeB+YorkIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSeifIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEatonIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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