Hunting, Wisconsin
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|timezone = Central (CST)
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Hunting, Wisconsin is a former unincorporated community of Shawano and Waupaca Counties, located in the towns of Belle Plaine and Matteson, along the north shore of the Embarrass River, United States.{{cite gnis|1577651|Hunting, Wisconsin}} Today little more remains of the community than the name of the road that traverses it: "Hunting Road."[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=5310&search_term=hunting Hunting, Wisconsin]
History
A post office called Hunting was established in 1880, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1934.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=WI&county=Shawano&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Shawano County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=1 March 2015}} The community may have been named either in honor of a landowner named Hunting, or from the fact the area was a hunting ground, or both.{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA85|year=1908|page=85}}
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{{Shawano County, Wisconsin}}
{{Waupaca County, Wisconsin}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Category:Unincorporated communities in Shawano County, Wisconsin
Category:Unincorporated communities in Waupaca County, Wisconsin
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