Kennedy, Wisconsin

Kennedy is an unincorporated community located in the town of Lake, Price County, Wisconsin, United States.

The village of Kennedy was platted in 1908, in an area near the Price-Sawyer County border, adjacent to the Omaha Railway tracks.

Spur lines were built from Kennedy to seven logging camps to the north, near the Ashland County border.

[3] Kennedy was the terminus of the Omaha Railway Line for two years, and settlers boarded the train there to reach Rice Lake.

[3] In the mid-1920s, the Dells Company moved its headquarters 2.5 miles farther away from Kennedy, to a community named Delco.

A post office was established there for the mill workers, loggers and trainmen who ate and slept at the boarding house there.

Downtown Kennedy faced the Omaha Railroad tracks , in the foreground of this photo. Businesses included, from left to right, are Jack Welsh's saloon and restaurant, Oscar Joyce's Saloon, Bricco's General Store, post office and Branshaw's hotel.