National Register of Historic Places listings in Forest County, Wisconsin facts for kids

Location of Forest County in Wisconsin

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Forest County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Forest County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.

There are 9 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted March 24, 2017.

Current listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	City or town	Description
1	Armstrong Creek Bridge		November 18, 2011 (#11000841)	Old 101 Rd. over Armstrong Cr. 45°38′29″N 88°26′47″W	Armstrong Creek	Standard, Prat pony truss bridge built of steel in 1908. This type was once common on Wisconsin roads, but only a handful remain.
2	Butternut-Franklin Lakes Archeological District		May 9, 2007 (#07000429)	Along the Hidden Lakes Trail near Butternut and Franklin Lakes 45°55′36″N 88°59′34″W	Hiles	20 sites spanning 4000 years of Native American occupation.
3	Camp Five Farmstead		January 11, 1996 (#95001506)	5466 Connor Farm Rd. 45°34′18″N 88°42′08″W	Laona	1890s logging camp and the farm that supplied that camp. Now a living history museum.
4	Chicago and North-Western Land Office		December 23, 1993 (#93001446)	4556 N. Branch St. 45°26′21″N 88°39′39″W	Wabeno	1897 log building from which land was sold. Now Wabeno's public library.
5	Dinesen-Motzfeldt-Hettinger Log House		January 12, 2005 (#04001486)	3125 WI 55 45°29′06″N 88°58′31″W	Mole Lake, Wisconsin (listed as Crandon)	1870s location of a stopping place on the Military Road north of Green Bay. The cabin was once occupied by the father of Karen Blixen who wrote Out of Africa, during his trapping and trading days. Under restoration as of 2010.
6	Franklin Lake Campground		September 28, 1988 (#88001573)	National Forest Rd. 2181 45°55′51″N 88°59′37″W	Alvin	Rustic-styled buildings built by CCCs and WPA starting in 1936.
7	Minertown-Oneva		May 4, 2010 (#09001315)	State Trunk Hwy. 32 45°22′57″N 88°37′32″W	Carter	One-company lumbering town which boomed from 1899 until the mill burned in 1931. Abandoned by 1939.
8	Otter Spring House		June 3, 1999 (#99000684)	Approx. 80 meters S of Spring Pond Rd. 45°35′22″N 88°48′49″W	Lincoln	The 1933 cedar log structure was built by a CCC camp to protect the spring, which was their water supply. Water from the spring has special significance to the Potawatomi.
9	John and Anna Wywialowski		November 7, 2016 (#16000766)	8680 WI 101 45°41′09″N 88°26′15″W	Armstrong Creek