Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The city wasn't close enough to the timber tracts to experience overnight or sustained
boomtown status. By 1850, three years after the first platting of the town, there were only
200 citizens.
Later, sawmills became paper mills, and, blessed with prime agricultural fields sur-
rounding, the local economy drew more settlers—mainly Polish immigrants.
Point Brewery
The third-oldest continuously operated (from 1857) brewery in the U.S.,
Point Brewery
(2617 Water St., 715/344-9310,
www.pointbeer.com
,
$3) concocts the beers of choice for
many a North Woods resident and college student (this author once had a friend lug a six-
pack to Taiwan). A personal fave is the Spring Bock and their excellent root beer. One Ch-
icago newspaper called Point the best beer in America; it won a gold medal for its Hori-
zon Wheat beer at the 2010 World Beer Cup. The brewery gives hourly tours 11am-2pm
Monday-Saturday.
UW-Stevens Point
WISCONSIN FORESTRY HALL OF FAME
One of Wisconsin's best environmental resources programs, the College of Natural Rea-
sourcesishousedattheUWSP—fitting,sincethesearethelandsimmortalizedbynaturalist
AldoLeopold.Leopoldhimselfishonoredinacornerofthebuilding's
Wisconsin Forestry
Hall of Fame.
In addition to the shrine to Leopold, there are exhibits on mammals, fish,
turtles, and more. It's in the east lobby of the first floor of the Natural Resources building.
