Marathon County, Wisconsin
Marathon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 138,013. Its county seat is Wausau. It was founded in 1850, created from a portion of Portage County. At that time the county stretched to the northern border with the upper Michigan peninsula. It is named after the battlefield at Marathon, Greece.
Marathon County Courthouse in Wausau
Wisconsin 1866 US land Office
Marathon County Fairgrounds
Marker located at the 45×90 point near Rietbrock
Wausau is a city in and the county seat of Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Wisconsin River. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 39,994. It is the core city of the Wausau metropolitan area, which includes all of Marathon County and had a population of 138,013 in 2020. The city's suburbs include Schofield, Weston, Mosinee, Maine, Rib Mountain, Kronenwetter, and Rothschild.
Downtown Wausau skyline
The original Milwaukee Road train station
This Frank Lloyd Wright–designed house is one of two in Wausau. Several Prairie School houses are in Wausau.
The Grand Theater, built in 1927, replaced the Grand Opera House (1899)