SPRING VALLEY, WI – Standing sentinel over Spring Valley for over a hundred years is a mysterious brick structure – what remains of Spring Valley’s iron industry– a smelter tower.

On Tuesday, July 15, 2025, conversation quickly circulated on social media around the topic of the recent Spring Valley School referendum.

Contained in the forty plus projects outlined in the referendum, funds are earmarked for the removal of the historic smelter tower located on the edge of the football field.

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