The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Before white settlement, Lakota and Ho-Chunk Indians controlled the area that would become Eleva, but Ojibwe territory lay only ten miles north, across the Chippewa River. The first settlers in what would become the town of Albion arrived in 1856. Most settled east of the future Eleva, around what would be called Hamlin, on the stage road from Whitehall to Eau Claire. In these early days some Indians still migrated through in the spring and fall, camping just west of where Eleva would grow. William Moon, one of the first settlers, harvested potatoes that first fall of 1856 - the first harvest in Albion. In following years more settlers arrived, and began growing wheat and corn.
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Start Eleva’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Eleva’s history is told.
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Nothing in Eleva is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Eleva has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Herman M. and Hanna Hediger House in Albion, 1.7 miles away.
Eleva and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.