The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Before the railroad was built circa 1884, the area that would become Catawba was a forested wilderness cut only by rivers and Indian trails. The federal government surveyed that wilderness in 1847 and 1855. In the final years before the railroad, a little pine was logged along the river and some Swedish immigrants settled near where highway 86 crosses the south fork of the Jump River.
The name Catawba is said to come from the wine - perhaps from a crew of railroad gandy dancers who overindulged on the stuff, or perhaps from local lumberjacks who partook at a saloon in Kennan.
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Nothing in Catawba is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Catawba has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Wisconsin Concrete Park in Worcester, 11.6 miles away.
