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Crandon, WI 54520
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Laona, WI 54541
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Wabeno, WI 54566
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Hiles
The town of Hiles is the headwaters for two of Wisconsin's premier rivers, the Wolf and the Pine. It all started in 1860 when a woodsman name Dan Gagen built a trading post and inn on the banks of Pine Lake alongside the old Military Road. the road ran as far north as Lake Superior, serving as a mail route and was used to carry supplies through the woods for trappers and traders. J.B. Thompson of Wausau bought the trading post in 1863 and sold it to H.B. Fessenden of Argonne in 1895. In 1902, Franklin P. Hiles of Milwaukee purchased not only the trading post but also the site that would soon become the town of Hiles. Organized in 1903, Hiles had a sawmill, general store, hotel and a railroad branch from the main line of the Chicago Northwestern.