Bevent is a town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.

The importance that those immigrants and their descendants placed on their religion was evidenced by many roadside shrines.

Individual families and entire parishes used to make pilgrimages to these shrines as part of their observance of religious holidays.

The Town of Bevent is one of the greatest (by percentage) Polish-American communities in the U.S.[5] Ancestries: Polish (61.0%), German (30.6%), Irish (4.9%), Norwegian (3.2%), French (2.5%), English (2.4%).

17.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.