Perkinstown is an unincorporated community located in the town of Grover, Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States.

The hamlet is scattered around Lake Kathryn, surrounded by Chequamegon National Forest, 10 miles (16 km) east-northeast of Gilman, reached by County Highway M and several gravel roads.

[2] Perkinstown lies in a band of choppy hills called the "Perkinstown terminal moraine" by geologists - hills composed of earth and rocks bulldozed by the last glacier and left mounded up where the glacier stopped advancing and began to melt back.

[3] Forests grew to cover the rough hills, dotted with little lakes, bogs and rivers.

An 1897 article in the Medford Star and News referred to Perkinstown as "that hemlock metropolis in the wilderness.

New tanning processes had been found which didn't use hemlock bark, so it was no longer profitable to haul hides and chemicals to remote places like Perkinstown.

In flatter country, settlers bought cut-over land like this and planted crops among the stumps.

But the Perkinstown moraine with its hills and swamps was more difficult to farm and much of it was not bought by farmers, remaining in the hands of lumber companies and loggers who didn't pay the taxes.

Weeds and saplings grew among the treetops left from logging, and during dry periods wildfires burned swaths that threatened the few settlers.

Young men lived in tents and barracks and worked partly to improve the surrounding forest, gravelling roads, building bridges, stocking lakes with fish, planting trees, cutting fire lanes, and building fire towers.