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Marathon County, Wisconsin

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
35historic places
—earliest paper
1850formed
138,013pop. 2020
54cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 35 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Wausau, Mosinee, Hamburg.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Wisconsin is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Marathon titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

24 of 35 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

35 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Andrew Warren Historic DistrictWausauDistrict1984
Bird, C. B., HouseWausauBuilding1980
Dells of the Eau Claire County ParkPloverDistrict2016
Dessert, Joseph, LibraryMosineeBuilding1980
Dunbar, C. F., HouseWausauBuilding1980
East Hill Residential Historic DistrictWausauDistrict2004
Edgar Village HallEdgarBuilding2000
Everest, D. C., HouseWausauBuilding1980
First Universalist ChurchWausauBuilding1980
Fricke-Menzner HouseMarathonBuilding1992
Fromm Brothers Fur and Ginseng FarmHamburgDistrict2013
Fromm, Walter and Mabel, HouseHamburgBuilding1982
Highland Park Historic DistrictWausauDistrict2022
Hotel WausauWausauBuilding2021
Jones, Granville D., HouseWausauBuilding1977
Maine Site (47MR22) (Additional Documentation)BrokawSite1984
Maine Site (47MR22) (Boundary Increase)BrokawSite2024
Manson, Charles L. and Dorothy, HouseWausauBuilding2016
Marathon County FairgroundsWausauStructure1980
Marathon Shoe Company East Side PlantWausauBuilding2017
Marchetti, Louis, HouseWausauBuilding1996
Mathie, Karl, HouseMosineeBuilding1980
Miller, Henry, HouseWausauBuilding1982
Rothschild PavilionRothschildBuilding2002
Schofield SchoolSchofieldBuilding2015
Schuetz, E.K., HouseWausauBuilding1980
Single, Benjamin, HouseWausauBuilding1980
Stewart, Hiram C., HouseWausauBuilding1974
United States Post Office and Court HouseWausauBuilding2012
Wausau ClubWausauBuilding1989
Wegner, C. H., HouseWausauBuilding1980
Wright, Duey and Julia, HouseWausauBuilding1999
Wright, Ely, HouseWausauBuilding1982
Yawkey, Cyrus C., HouseWausauBuilding1974
Zion Lutheran ChurchWausauBuilding2024

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Marathon was formed in 1850 (1850-02-16) from Portage.

MARATHON created from PORTAGE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Marathon County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

138k69k5081850188019201940196020002020
18501860188019001920194019501960198020002020
5082,89217,12143,25665,25975,91580,33788,874111,270125,834138,013

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

54 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 54 of 54 listed
NameLatLon
Baesemann Cemetery44.97479-89.90698
Berlin Cemetery45.04286-89.72761
Bethany Cemetery45.01514-89.37324
Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery44.98778-90.17959
Big Hill Cemetery45.04769-89.75817
Brighton Municipal Cemetery44.84343-90.30042
Calvary Cemetery45.09796-89.49199
Christ Lutheran Cemetery44.95972-90.28006
Eland Cemetery44.87118-89.2377
Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery45.00239-89.86406
Evergreen Rest Cemetery44.79221-89.2756
Faith Cemetery North45.11361-89.69235
Faith Lutheran Cemetery South45.09377-89.69323
Forestville Cemetery44.94415-89.41286
Friedenshain Cemetery45.04756-89.80786
Fromm Cemetery45.09098-89.86524
Gate of Heaven Cemetery44.85369-89.641
Hillcrest Cemetery44.88479-89.25269
Holy Trinity Cemetery44.99373-89.98969
Knowlton Cemetery44.70366-89.67387
Lueck Cemetery45.03265-89.92598
Maple Grove Cemetery45.07571-89.70386
Mechanics Ridge Cemetery45.00736-89.53758
Mosinee Cemetery44.7993-89.71215
Our Saviors Cemetery44.78575-89.43846
Peacefull Rest Cemetery44.77202-89.44269
Pilgrim Rest Cemetery44.97469-90.19009
Pine Grove Cemetery44.93986-89.61697
Rest Haven Pet Cemetery45.09574-89.84408
Rib View Cemetery45.01887-89.76834
Saint Florian Parish Cemetery44.88279-89.33173
Saint Francis Cemetery44.87562-89.25477
Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery Old44.70361-89.67226
Saint John Lutheran Cemetery45.0166-89.83063
Saint John the Baptist Cemetery44.71419-89.66459
Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery45.09027-89.88449
Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery44.8193-90.08997
Saint Joseph's Cemetery44.93754-89.6161
Saint Ladislaus Catholic Cemetery44.76969-89.38764
Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery44.92414-89.84023
Saint Matthews Cemetery44.92329-89.84012
Saint Michael Cemetery44.93681-89.61612
Saint Paul Cemetery44.79833-89.7123
Saint Pauls Cemetery45.09107-89.9229
Saint Philomenes Cemetery44.92926-89.23334
Saint Thomas Cemetery44.98827-90.1791
Tessmer Cemetery44.99855-89.9635
Trinity Cemetery44.82272-90.31581
Trinity Cemetery45.07897-89.53252
Wausau Hebrew Cemetery44.94068-89.61933
Zion Cemetery44.8293-90.07953
Zion Cemetery45.01661-89.82197
Zion Cemetery45.02765-89.43736
Zion Lutheran Cemetery44.80138-90.06588
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
NameLatLon
Staadts44.77913-90.12013
Stettin44.97302-89.80763

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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