Brantwood, Wisconsin
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Brantwood, Wisconsin is in southern Price county, on US Highway 8 and on the Wisconsin Central Railroad, between Prentice on the west and Tomahawk on the east. A rural community settled in the 19th century by mostly Scandinavian immigrants (especially Finns) it declined during the 20th century, its young people seeking opportunity elsewhere, its farms returning to forest. ZIP code is 54513.
South of Brantwood was Knox Mills, where J B Engstrom owned a sawmill and planing mill, and a boarding house for the mostly immigrant bachelor workers, on a spur of the Soo Line railroad, now the Wisconsin Central. The mill prospered in the 1920s, but the Great Depression shut it down until the late 1930s. Knox Mills having no post office or main line railroad, it dwindled before Brantwood did and the spur was abandoned.
