GOOSEVILLE, Wis. – It’s said Gooseville was named by a roaming peddler who remarked that because of the large numbers of geese being raised by the German farmers the place was “a regular Gooseville.” The settlement was located in an ultra-quiet hilly area southwest of Adell in the town of Sherman, Wisconsin. Gooseville sat at the intersection of County Road SS and Cascade-Silver Creek Road. A dam there spans the north branch of the Milwaukee River; it dates to the 1840s, its millstones purchased in New York and delivered to Wisconsin.
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James Cryns
Jim Cryns has for more than 25 years worked as a freelance writer in Wisconsin. In addition to being a staff writer for the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, he was a radio news anchor with both WTMJ and WISN.





