Chippewa Falls, WI

CHIPPEWA FALLS, a post-village, capital of Chippewa county, Wisconsin, on Chippewa river, about 185 miles N. W. from Madison. It has extensive water-power with mills. Population in 1853, about 250. (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)

CHIPPEWA FALLS, P. V., and C. S., at falls of Chippewa river, in county of same name, at which place the river has a descent of 24 feet in half a mile. Population 250. Good hotel and several mills.  (John Warren Hunt, Wisconsin Gazetteer..., Madison, 1853)