Kennedy town was established in 1908 after the establishment of a milling camp in the area. The milling camp attracted most of the residents who came and made the community their permanent home. The town grew and was later on deserted and forgotten.

Early days of Kennedy

Kennedy town was founded by Pat Kennedy in 1908 near Price-Sawyer. The land was owned by the Dells Lumber and Pulp Company who were involved in the paper making. Owners of the company built the company’s headquarters on the western side of Kennedy town. To increase the productivity of the company, spur lines were built, these lines connected the town of Kennedy to other logging camps in the north. Due to the logging activities in the newly established paper-making camp, people were attracted and settled in the area. The population of the town kept on increasing as days went by.  Other business buildings were also built in the area giving rise to the general store, boarding house, hotel, and a train station. These new businesses gave opportunities to the residents in the town to work in them. However, in 1911, a post office was built and a frame schoolhouse. Kennedy town was a train terminus where passengers boarded the train to Rice Lake. Due to this, a road was constructed connecting this town with other sawmills in the state. There were more than twenty-five families together with thirty students who were schooling in the town by the 1920s.

The decline of the town

Having stayed in this town for some time, the Dells Company relocated its headquarters from Kennedy town to Delco. The Delco community was located a few miles from this town and the community was involved in the clearing of wood. The post office together with other government offices was relocated to the new community. The mill workers, loggers, and trainmen were mostly the ones who used the post office. Apart from the post office, a warehouse, blacksmith shop, and a horse barn were also built.  Rapid development in Delco town, many from Kennedy relocated to the new town. They left the town in haste leaving behind all the other things that were bulky to carry with them. The town together with its buildings was abandoned and left to decay. During the shift, the residents destroyed all that was not important as well as burned their homesteads. Only four buildings that still stand to date were spared. Today, the town is a semi forest covered with thick vegetation making it inaccessible. The remaining four buildings have over time weakened and currently serve as home to the wild animals. A town site is a public place open to anyone.