Address: 121 Park Rd

Phone: 715-239-3619

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Community: Cornell

Category: Historic Sites / Play + Shop

Located along the Chippewa River on Bridge Street in Cornell is a picturesque 10-acre park that features two ball fields, the Visitors Center, pavilion, playground, drinking water, toilet facilities, and parking for the nearby Old Abe State Trail.

This 10-acre site was donated to the city in 1983 by Globe Industry and the area had been used since 1913 as a wood yard to unload and storeiles of pulp wood. Still on the site is one of the only known pulp wood stackers in the world.

The 175-foot stacker was used to stack the logs after they were run through the attached saw mill and then floated into the paper mill across the road. The stacker was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. In 1998 a new visitors’ center was built near the base of the stacker.