Weston Township

Clark County
Townships

Weston Township

written and contributed by Kay Scholtz <scholtz@tznet.com>

Note: There are presently 33 townships in Clark County.
Thirty-two townships are of standard size each covering six square miles.
The Township of Foster includes two 6 square mile areas.

Weston Township was also created along with Levis in November of 1856. Originally this township was comprised of the entire county north of Pine Valley Township and also 10 townships in Taylor County. It was named for Samuel F. Weston who was one of the first settlers to register land at this location. Mr. Weston was born about 1808 in Sommerset County, Maine, and arrived in Weston Rapids, two miles north of Neillsville, in 1853 with several others from Maine who engaged in logging. He was one of the first local loggers in Clark County independent of mills along the Black River. He died in 1864 at Weston Rapids after a short illness that he acquired while working at one of his logging camps. Samuel Weston was buried at La Crosse. He owned camps on the Black and Chippewa Rivers and was one of the largest landholders in Wisconsin at that time. Weston Township was left with its present boundaries in 1900.