en Willard, Clark County, Wisconsin

Willard, Wisconsin
Willard, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
	Looking north at Willard on County G.
	Willard Willard
	Coordinates: 44°44′06″N 90°43′10″W / 44.73500°N 90.71944°W
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Clark
Town	Hendren
Elevation	360 m (1,181 ft)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	54493
Area code(s)	715 & 534
GNIS feature ID	1576756

Willard is an unincorporated community located in the town of Hendren, Clark County, Wisconsin, United States. Willard is 6.5 miles (10.5 km) west-southwest of Greenwood. Willard has a post office with ZIP code 54493.^[2]

History

The post office at Willard, and in turn the settlement itself, was named after Willard Foster (1876–1945), the youngest son of Nathaniel Caldwell Foster (1834–1923). Foster established the Foster Lumber Company in Fairchild, Wisconsin, and the company founded Willard in 1911.^[3]

The 1918 History of Clark County described Willard like this:

Willard is a thriving place on the Fairchild & Northeastern [railroad], between Fairchild and Greenwood. It has two stores, a cheese factory, a boarding house, a Catholic Church and a school. A few years ago Ignatz Ceznic started to organize a colony of Slavs and kindred nationalities in the wilderness in the town of Hendren. Today that country is dotted with scores of prosperous farms, and the village of Willard is the market place for them. Mr. Ceznic had the backing of the Foster Lumbering Company, of Fairchild, in his work.^[4]