Photo credit: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
State lists properties that are good prospects to sell. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7/1/2014)
Facts and figures from "History of the Northern Center" timeline.
In 1895, the legislature approved to bill to construct a "Home for the Feeble-Minded", which opened in Chippewa Falls two years later.
The facility has undergone 3 name changes.
- 1922. The Northern Wisconsin Colony and Training School
- 1976: Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled
- 2005: EXCEL Treatment Unit
Related post:
The Knapp House. (7/2/2014)
Wiscraft Industries. (7/4/2014)
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