During
this decade Eau Claire witnessed a transition from lumbering to manufacturing
and experienced a resulting growth in population. WWI (1914-1918)
also affected the people of Eau Claire in varying ways.
During
this decade Eau Claire witnessed a transition from lumbering to manufacturing
and experienced a resulting growth in population. WWI (1914-1918)
also affected the people of Eau Claire in varying ways.
| 1910 | The assessed value of Eau Claire was $10 million. |
| 1911 | There were 93 auto owners in Eau Claire. |
| 1913 | The Eau Claire County Tuberculosis Sanatorium was opened. |
| 1914 | A 14-mile stretch of road between Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls was started and eventually paved in 1920. |
| 1915 | The Gillette Safety Tire Company was established. Its headquarters were in Akron. Ohio. In 1914 land for Carson Park (135 acres, officially established in 1915) was purchased from the Shaw Lumber Company by the heirs of William Carson. |
| 1916 | Eau Claire State Normal School was founded. |
| 1917 | The Wisconsin Loyalty Legion was formed in the city whose object was to teach and practice patriotism and to bring traitors to punishment regarding WWI. |
| 1918 | The city had 45 manufacturing plants: $9 million capital invested; 2,650 men and 408 women employed; $2.1 million payroll; $12.1 million in value of products produced. |
| 1918 | Company E leaves for France. Eau Claire will lose 49 men during Word War I. |
| 1919 | Homecoming celebrations for the returning WWI troops. |
| 1910 - 1920 | Eau Claire's population grew twice as much as it had in the preceding 20 years. |
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Created by Matt Unger on 6/13/97.