Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Rothschild, WI

Rothschild is a village in Marathon County, part of the Wausau metropolitan area, with a population of 5,567 at the 2020 census.

Rothschild is the northern terminus of Interstate 39, the freeway that runs from here south through Stevens Point and Madison to Normal, Illinois.

The village grew up around a paper mill built in 1909–1910 by a group of local lumber barons on the Wisconsin River, which produced its first reel of paper in 1910 under the name Marathon Paper Mills.

The mill company built and maintained homes, a community hall, a boarding house and a general store for its workers, and the mill town that grew up in what was then the Town of Weston incorporated as the village of Rothschild.

The mill passed from Marathon Corporation to the American Can Company in the 1950s, to Weyerhaeuser in 1973, and to Domtar in the 2000s; at its early-1970s heyday it employed more than 1,000 workers running four paper machines, though only one machine remains in operation today.

At the 2010 census Rothschild had 5,269 residents in 2,199 households, with a median age of 41.8 years, and the village covers about 6.9 square miles along the river.

Two nationally known builders are headquartered in Rothschild: Wausau Homes, the modular home manufacturer, and Wausau Tile.

The Central Wisconsin Airport in neighboring Mosinee serves Rothschild and the whole Wausau area with commercial flights.

Rothschild's branch library began in 1949 in a small cloak room of the village hall, organized by the Rothschild Homemakers with the county librarian, and today it is a branch of the Marathon County Public Library.

The village's recorded population has climbed steadily for a century, from just 413 residents in 1920 to 5,567 in 2020.