Fred Brede
ASIN: B00X3X7AN6
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 144
1886-1887 was a time of tremendous change for the small river community of Osceola Wisconsin. As many as 270 paddleboats provided transportation for settlers moving into Wisconsin and shipping grains, lumber and raw materials down to the Mississippi. The railroad was coming and would forever change the lives of Osceola’s citizens and the way they do business by bringing them into a new world of economic growth and opportunity.Join John Doelan a reporter for the Stillwater Post as he follows a series of events that follow the construction of the railroad through Osceola. The city will never be the same. Truly it was a change: “From Rivers to Rails”