Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Montreal, WI

Montreal is a small city in Iron County, in the iron range country of far northern Wisconsin near the Montreal River.

Montreal was originally incorporated around 1917 as the Village of Hamilton, and it was the first village formed in Iron County.

Montreal was incorporated as a city on April 1, 1924, taking its name from the Montreal Mining Company, which operated iron ore mines in the area and was itself named for the nearby Montreal River.

Montreal is the only planned mining company town in Wisconsin, designed specifically to house iron ore miners and their families.

In 1921 the Oglebay Norton mining company laid out the community for about 700 miners, building roughly 140 company homes in six different models that miners could rent for as little as $1.50 per room per year.

The Montreal Company Location Historic District, with its neat frame houses and gently curving streets, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a national example of industrial community planning.

The Montreal Mine nearby was, at the time of its closing in 1962, the deepest iron mine in the world, with a vertical depth of 4,335 feet.

Over roughly a century of operation, the Montreal Mine produced about 45 million tons of iron ore.

The neighborhood of Gile is part of the city of Montreal, near the Gile Flowage, a reservoir of nearly 3,400 acres.

The Plummer Mine head frame near Montreal, erected in 1904 and standing about 80 feet high, is the last such head frame still standing in Wisconsin, and some 15 kilometers of cross-country ski trails wind past vacant mining structures near the city.