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We would like to provide the residents of  Eagle River  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Eagle River Home page. The Eagle River Home page provides as much information as possible on Eagle River. Knowing Eagle River’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Eagle River’s Home page, you will also find Eagle River’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Eagle River has a population of 1536. 41.1% of Eagle River’s inhabitants are Male, and 58.9 are female. 38.9% of Eagle River is married and 47.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $121,004, and the average rent is $683. Household median income in Eagle River is $33,783, and the individual median income is $19,869. Eagle River’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.9%), Multiple(6.6%), Hispanic(3.5%), Native(2.5%), Black(1.2%), Pacific(0.5%), Asian(0.2%).


The first recorded white settler in what became Vilas County was a man named Ashman who established a trading post in Lac du Flambeau in 1818. Eagle River's name was derived from the abundance of eagles nesting along the river. It is believed that Bethuel Draper and "Dutch Pete" Cramer camped in the area in 1853 and were responsible for naming the community.


A settlement grew as other families settled in the area in 1857. The town of Eagle River was created by an act of the state legislature in 1885. Vilas County was set off from Oneida County on April 12, 1893 and named for William Freeman Vilas, a migrant from Vermont. Vilas had served for Wisconsin in the United States Senate from 1891 to 1897.


In the 1850s migrants from New England, primarily from Vermont and Connecticut, constructed a number of wagon roads and trails through Vilas County including the Ontonogan Mail Trail and a Military Road from Fort Howard to Fort Wilkins in Copper Harbor, Michigan.


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