Hughey, Wisconsin

Hughey is an unpopulated spot in the town of Cleveland, Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States,[1] where logs were once loaded from the Yellow River onto the Omaha Railway.

Before settlement, the lands along the upper Yellow River held various kinds of timber: hemlock, birch, maple, white pine, etc.

Hughey, president of the Yellow River Lumber Co.[2]: 87 Along with the loading works, the site had a bunkhouse, a livestock corral, another structure, a wye for turning engines, and a gravel pit.

A second spur branched off to the south to another loading works downstream on the river, run by the Stanley, Merrill and Phillips Railroad.

[2]: 87 By 1935 the line was no longer needed and the operator applied to the Public Service Commission to stop running trains to Hughey.