[3] The Town of Eaton is located in the center of Clark County and is bordered to the north by the city of Greenwood.

Then in October and November of the same year another crew marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with chain and compass.

[4][5] The survey produced a map which shows a "Waggon Road" winding east of the Black River and sites of four cabins along the river, including "Vanduser's cabin," along with Vanduser's millsite near the future site of Greenwood.

[6] When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description: T26N R2W is 2nd rate gently rolling land Some good Pine in the NE part of the Township between Black and Rock rivers.

[7] An 1873 map of Clark County showed a "highway" reaching up from Neillsville through Eaton and Greenwood, and into what would become Longwood.

The plat map from that year shows no settler homesteads west of the Black River; instead much of the land there was in large blocks owned by lumbermen and speculators, with C.C.

[10][9] By 1890 the Neillsville-to-Withee stage passed through Eaton each day, following a dirt road that would become modern highway 73.

A spur of the Wisconsin Central Railroad snaked in from Marshfield through Loyal to the south side of Greenwood.

A rural schoolhouse had been added a half mile west of where Hinker Road now meets Owen Avenue.

A few other road segments connected to those, with a couple dozen settlers' homes west of the Black.

A new railroad arced across the top of Eaton, the Fairchild and Northeastern, swooping south of Greenwood on its way to Owen.

The plat map shows the modern road grid 90% complete and most of the town settled - even west of the river.