Marker location: Iola’s Main St.

Iola Main Street Bridge / Kenny Buttolph Memorial Bridge

In the early 1850s Silas Miller identified a suitable point on the South Branch of the Little Wolf River coursing the countryside to establish the sawmill that became the genesis of what became Iola the community. In 1853 he undertook to impound the river and construct a sawmill on the stream’s north shore...

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