Ladysmith, WI, USA
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N 45° 28.361 W 091° 05.762
15T E 648822 N 5037224
A small community of 3932 in northern Wisconsin.
Waymark Code: WM97NR
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 07/10/2010
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Ladysmith is a city in Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,932 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Rusk County. It is the former location of Mount Senario College, which closed in 2002 due to significant debt. For the 2006-2007 school year, part of the former campus was operated as Concordia Preparatory School, a private Christian high school. That institution also faced financial problems and closed. Silver Lake College of Manitowoc, Wisconsin will be offering courses at Mount Senario, renamed "Mount Senario Education Center". A tornado hit Ladysmith on Labor Day in 2002.
The city was founded at the intersection of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (Soo Line) with the Flambeau River in 1885, as "Flambeau Falls" after the Ojibwa name for the area Gakaabikijiwanan ("of cliffed rapids"). Robert Corbett, a logging and lumbering entrepreneur, held the dominant influence on city in its early years, first renamed as "Corbett", then to "Warner" in 1891, and then to the present name on July 1, 1900, after the bride of Charles R. Smith, head of the Menasha Wooden Ware Co.
Address: On Hwy 8 east of town at 5th St. & Edgewood Ave
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