Marshland, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
Downtown Marshland
Downtown Marshland
Marshland is located in Wisconsin
Marshland
Marshland
Marshland is located in the United States
Marshland
Marshland
Coordinates: 44°04′25″N 91°33′18″W / 44.07361°N 91.55500°W / 44.07361; -91.55500
Country United States
State Wisconsin
CountyBuffalo
TownBuffalo
Elevation
208 m (682 ft)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)715 & 534
GNIS feature ID1569087[1]
Marshland sign on Wisconsin Highway 54.

Marshland is an unincorporated community located in the town of Buffalo, in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, United States. Marshland is located on Wisconsin Highway 35 and Wisconsin Highway 54 8.5 miles (13.7 km) east-southeast of Fountain City.[2]

History

The La Crosse, Trempealeau & Prescott Railroad chartered to build from a point across the river from Winona to connect with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad at Winona Junction in Wisconsin near La Crosse.[3] This was completed in 1870 with tracks in Marshland.

The Green Bay & Minnesota Railroad laid tracks from Merrillian Junction to join with the La Crosse, Trempealeau, & Prescott Railroad at Marshland in 1873.[4] That railroad was built to reach Winona, Minnesota and the Winona and St. Peter Railroad.[4] This became part of the Green Bay and Western Railroad.

A post office called Marshland was established in 1875, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904.[5] The community was named from the fact adjacent farmland was once a marsh.[6]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Marshland, Wisconsin
  2. ↑ Buffalo County (PDF) (Map). Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 16, 2011. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
  3. ↑ Eben Douglas Pierce (1917). History of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. Unigraphic. pp. 262–.
  4. 1 2 Eben Douglas Pierce (1917). History of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. Unigraphic. pp. 90–.
  5. ↑ "Buffalo County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  6. ↑ Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 100.


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