Donald is an unincorporated community (nearly a ghost town) located in the town of Pershing, Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States,[1] where the Canadian National Railway crosses County Highway M. Donald was founded in 1903,[2] where the Fountain-Campbell Lumber Company built a sawmill on the Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls, and Northeastern Railway (a.k.a.

[3] The community was named for Donald Campbell, the son of the president of Fountain-Campbell.

Owen Company built a line for the Wisconsin Central Railway crossing the Omaha line at Donald and heading northwest for Superior - now part of the Canadian National Railway.

[6] At some point, the Omaha RR set up a box car as Donald's depot.

The Omaha Railroad stopped running in the late 1930s and track was pulled up.