The main business section is Hewitt street, named after James Hewitt, one of the pioneer settlers, The city lies back nearly a half mile from the banks of Black river but O’Neill creek runs nearly through the center of town circling from west to east, dividing it into the north side which contains the Catholic church and school, the cemetery and some of the desirable residence blocks, and the south side which comprises the business streets, the county buildings, high school, new Carnegie library, and many new and very beautiful homes.

Plant of the Neillsville Canning Company.

Neillsville has three banks, four dry goods stores, two drug stores, four hotels and a boarding house, six or seven grocery stores, three hardware stores, four implement houses, two automobile garages, sixteen saloons, a farmers co-operative elevator and lumber yard, a farmers’ cooperative creamery, another creamery and cheese factory corn- blued, a flour and feed mill, wagon factory, four blacksmith shops, one steam laundry, three restaurants, a canning factory, two potato ware houses, one cheese warehouse, one brick yard, overall factory, 2 English and one German newspaper, a Catholic church and school, a Lutheran church and school, Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational, Christian Science and Episcopal churches, High school and 2 graded schools, three harness shops, two meat markets, two variety stores, two furniture and undertaking establishments, four barber shops, one moving picture theatre, a brewery, a planing mill, two pop factories, four doctors, three dentists, eight lawyers, three real estate dealers, two abstracting firms, one cigar factory, three dray lines, one monument manufacturer, five shoe repair shops, two electrical workers, two plumbing shops, one ice house.

Norwegian Lutheran Church, Neillsville

Catholic Church, Neillsville