Stevens Point
a city and countyseat of Portage co., Wis.; on the Wisconsin river, and on the Wisconsin Central, the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste.
Marie, and the Green Bay and Western railroads; 63 miles W. of Appleton. It contains gas and electric lights, National and State banks, State Normal School, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has a large lumbering trade, especially in pine. Here are shops of the Wisconsin Central railroad, and numerous foundries, flour, planing, saw, and shingle mills.