Established: 1853
County Seat: Ellsworth
Parent: St. Croix County

Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1870
Deaths 1876
Marriages 1851

Pierce Register of Deeds
414 W. Main Street, P.O. Box 267
Ellsworth, WI 54011-0119
Telephone: (715) 273-3531

PIERCE.--Population 1,548.

From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855

pg. 93-94

A new County, lying on the Mississippi, at the mouth of the St. Croix. It has so far attracted but little attention. The country is represented to be good in some portions for agriculture. On the Eau Galle River, pine is cut, and a number of saw mills in operation. Pierce County is well watered, and has numerous mill sites yet unimproved. The land is mostly unsold. Some portions are not well watered. This County is in the Willow River land district, the office for which is not Hudson.

Prescott at the mouth of the St. Croix is a beautiful and thriving place, and we think will be the largest, not only in that County, but in the whole county between La Crosse and Lake Superior.