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  Plainfield, Wisconsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plainfield is a village located in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
It is notorious for the 1950s cannibal/necrophile Ed Gein murder case.
Plainfield is located at 44°12'42" North, 89°29'34" West (44.211943, -89.492803)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plainfield,_Wisconsin   (394 words)

  
 Plainfield
Plainfield, Illinois, United States [Village]; population was 4,557 in 1990; housing units was 1,691 in 1990; location is 41°37'N 88°12'W; land area is 3.92 square miles (2,506 acres); water area is 0.29 square miles (187 acres); FIPS code is 60287 [SourceCBP]
Plainfield, Indiana, United States [Town]; population was 10,433 in 1990; housing units was 4,303 in 1990; location is 39°42'N 86°23'W; land area is 3.72 square miles (2,382 acres); water area is 0.03 square miles (19 acres); FIPS code is 60246 [SourceCBP]
Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States [Village]; population was 839 in 1990; housing units was 370 in 1990; location is 44°13'N 89°30'W; land area is 1.30 square miles (831 acres); FIPS code is 63150 [SourceCBP]
www.placesnamed.com /P/l/plainfield.asp   (695 words)

  
 ED GEIN: WISCONSIN'S "PSYCHO"
Plainfield residents, along with officials for the Wisconsin Association for Mental Health were outraged.
John was a graduating senior at the University of Wisconsin and worked at the lab for a year under Dexter Haney, the photo lab chief.
Regardless, the "strange little man" from Plainfield, Wisconsin has never been forgotten and its sure that his presence will continue to be felt for many, many years to come.
www.prairieghosts.com /ed_gein.html   (2844 words)

  
 Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Plainfield - I grew up in the small town of Plainfield, Wisconsin located in central Wisconsin.
Plainfield is a town of just under 900 people and my graduating class was a whopping 46.
While this didn't necessarily provide the sort of opportunities that a larger school may have I was able to participate in any activity I chose to.
students.uwsp.edu /aenge497/bio.htm   (436 words)

  
 Plainfield Wisconsin Resource Guide, City or community of Plainfield, Wisconsin Facts, Information, Relocation, Real ...
The population of Plainfield is approximately 839 (1990).
The distance from Plainfield to Washington DC is 776 miles.
Plainfield is positioned 44.21 degrees north of the equator and 89.49 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.usacitiesonline.com /wicountyplainfield.htm   (287 words)

  
 Waushara County Obituaries
Green has been a resident of Wisconsin the past 16 years and has made many friends who will regret his death, but as he was a great sufferer with cancer for some time, we feel that their loss is his gain.
Ada M. Stilwell was born in the town of Plainfield Jan. 4, 1877 and was the oly daughter of Mr.
In 1882, Luella A. Perry of Plainfield, Wisconsin, daughter of Orrin and Jane Perry, became the bride of John Edward Hanawalt, on March 1st, and returned with him to create a home out of the claim on which he had settled in 1880.
www.rootsweb.com /~wiwausha/obits007.html   (4436 words)

  
 Plainfield, Wisconsin - Serial Killer Ed Gein's Hometown and Grave
The grave robbing cannibal was the inspiration for Psycho, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs.
The police haven't yet decided the stone's fate, but if past experience with politically incorrect memorabilia is any guide, it may take up permanent residence in an unmarked closet or basement.
The promoter claimed that his tombstone was a reproduction, but it was covered with the same Satanic symbols and obscenities as the missing stone, and it had the same chips taken out of it by years of irrepressible Gein fans.
www.roadsideamerica.com /tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==8458   (612 words)

  
 1992 Notable Wisconsin Authors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She is an expert falconer and past president of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology.
The Hamerstrom's home in Plainfield, Wisconsin has been open to hundreds of volunteers over the years who have assisted with annual prairie chicken counts.
Clifford D. Simak was born in Millville, Wisconsin and educated at the University of Wisconsin.
www.wla.lib.wi.us /lac/notable/1992notable.htm   (876 words)

  
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 TOWN OF PLAINFIELD, WISCONSIN 1870 CENSUS
BARKER, the artist, from Plainfield, was present with her camera and photographed the group.
A little insight into the the town of Bloomfield in the County of Waushara, Wisconsin: according the census record, there were six dwellings housing eight families, there were 21 white males, 19 females of which 16 of the males were foreign born, 15 of the females were foreign born.
The 1860 and 1870 US Census' show that George William and Elizabeth lived in lived in West Bloomfield, Waushara County, Wisconsin for quite a while (note: SEARLES is recorded as SEARL in 1860 census and as SEARLE in 1870 census).
www.rootsweb.com /~wiwausha/searles.html   (1928 words)

  
 Ed Gein
Ed was born in 1906 in Wisconsin, to an over protective, overly religious mother, who taught Ed that sex was a sin.
Ed Gein and his brother Henry were raised by a domineering mother on their 160-acre farm seven miles outside Plainfield, Wisconsin.
Eventually the place was burned down by the Plainfield citizens as they regarded it as a place of evil.
www.angelfire.com /vamp/kitti2/edgein.htm   (2490 words)

  
 Ed Gein: Real American Psycho
Born at the turn of the century into the small farming community of Plainfield, Wisconsin, Gein lived a repressive and solitary life on his family homestead with a weak, ineffectual brother and domineering mother who taught him from an early age that sex was a sinful thing.
Eddie ran the family's 160-acre farm on the outskirts of Plainfield until his brother Henry died in 1944 and his mother in 1945.
But he remained alone in the enormous farmhouse, haunted by the ghost of his overbearing mother, whose bedroom he kept locked and undisturbed, exactly as it had been when she was alive.
www.houseofhorrors.com /gein.htm   (1532 words)

  
 Ed Gein Farm Auction, WHi-2022
This image is one of many photographs, held by the Society, that documents agricultural events.
This image is issued by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Use of the image requires written permission from the staff of the Division of Library-Archives.
www.wisconsinhistory.org /whi/fullRecord.asp?id=2022&qstring=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/results.asp?subject_narrow=Auctions   (202 words)

  
 SERIAL KILLER PROFILE
During the late 1940’s and 1950’s, Wisconsin police began to notice an increase in missing persons cases.
In the winter of 1954, a Plainfield tavern keeper by the name of Mary Hogan mysteriously disappeared from her place of business.
The only other common tie among these cases was that all of the disappearances happened around or in Plainfield, Wisconsin.
www.courttv.com /archive/hannibal/gein4.html   (531 words)

  
 Plainfield Public Library Web Site
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Plainfield Public Library is a member of the Winnefox Library System
www.plainfieldlibrary.org   (428 words)

  
 Plainfield, WI Houses, Apartments, Cars, Mortgage Status, and Residents Info
Back to: Plainfield main page, Wisconsin, Wisconsin smaller cities, Wisconsin small towns, All US cities.
Median gross rent in Plainfield, WI in 2000: $379
Back to: Plainfield, WI (don't miss, contains a wealth of additional information), Wisconsin, All US cities.
www.city-data.com /housing/houses-Plainfield-Wisconsin.html   (364 words)

  
 Tri-County School District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Tri-County Area School District is located in Plainfield, Wisconsin, right off of Interstate Highway 39.
Plainfield is 20 miles south of Stevens Point, 80 miles south of Wausau, and 90 miles North of Madison.
All students living outside the Village of Plainfield limits are offered bus transportation.
www.penguin.tricounty.k12.wi.us /district.htm   (153 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Deviant: Books: Harold Schechter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wisconsin, the natives will boast, is a garden state, and as you head north on the highway from Madison on a limpid spring day, you see at once that the claim is simple truth.
This is a well-researched book about Ed Gein, the mild mannered, Midwestern psychopath from Plainfield, Wisconsin who, in the nineteen fifties, would shock the nation with his gruesome crimes.
While he is unable to bring his mother back from the grave, he does remove many with similarities to his mother from their graves.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671739158?v=glance   (2964 words)

  
 Ed Gein: Wisconsin's Not So Favorite Son   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27, 1906 to Augusta and George Gein in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
She worked very hard and was able to save money to move her family to a one hundred and ninety-acre farm in Plainfield in 1914 in order for her to save her sons and the family from the immortality of the large city.
Psychologists and psychiatrists that interviewed him stated that he was schizophrenic and a "Sexual Psychopath." When the stories began to leak out of Plainfield about Ed Gein and the crimes he committed, Plainfield became under attack by the media.
www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/aug/article234.html   (1336 words)

  
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Ed Gein is also known as The Butcher of Plainfield, The Plainfield Butcher, The Mad Butcher, The Plainfield Ghoul.
He was born on August 27, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin and lived with his domineering and fanatically religious mother, Augusta, and his older brother, Henry, on a 195-acres family homestead outside Plainfield, Wisconsin.
He was committed to Central State Hospital (for the Criminally Insane) at Waupon, Wisconsin and moved in 1978 to the Mendota Mental Health Institute.
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 Plainfield, WI News
Local news for Plainfield, WI continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
The following central Wisconsin locations are rumored to be haunted.
Wisconsin High School Football - Little Wolf beat Tri-County
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 Edward Gein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Nickname: The Plainfield Ghoul, The Butcher of Plainfield
The son of the second woman happened to be the police chief of Plainfield, Wisconsin.
He was found guilty and sent to a mental institution for the rest of his life.
www.angelfire.com /ca/serialmurder/EdwardGein.html   (292 words)

  
 Serial Killers - Ed Gein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Edward Theodore Gein was born to George and Augusta on 27 August 1906, in a small town called La Crosse, in Wisconsin.
When Edward was 8 years old his mother nagged his father into buying a 275 acre farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin.
He was laid to rest in the only available plot in Plainfield - next to his mother Augusta Gein.
www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/portland/12/gein.htm   (1047 words)

  
 Biography of Ed Gein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Shortly after Ed's brother, Henry was born; the family left their 160-acre farm and relocated in Plainfield, Wisconsin.
Although people who lived around Plainfield found him to be a little odd, they thought it was only because he was lonely.
The movie is based closely on the life of the Wisconsin serial killer.
www.missjune.org /gein.htm   (1358 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Deviant: The Shocking True Story of the Original "Psycho" at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1957 a gruesome discovery in a dilapidated farmhouse situated a few miles outside the small town of Plainfield, Wisconsin instantaneously changed America’s perception of good and evil.
Schechter’s meticulous research brings 1950’s Plainfield to life, and it enables us to see the world of Ed Gein as Ed himself saw it.
Deviant is the definitive examination of the life and crimes of Ed Gein, and it should not be missed by true-crime fans.
www.epinions.com /content_9614626436   (875 words)

  
 sanguine illuminations - READ THIS, The story of ED Gein, interesting, if your into sereal KILLERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This dark creature of children's imaginations was immortalized first in 1960 by director Alfred Hitchcock in his film, PSYCHO.
Gein is disguised here as a killer named Ezra Cobb who keeps his mother's mummified body when she dies, brings home other bodies to keep her company and then turns to murder when he feels the urge to make suits of skin.
That same year (1974), Gein's influence was felt again in the THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, directed by Tobe Hooper, who had been exposed to the real-life case by Wisconsin relatives when he was a boy.
www.greatestjournal.com /go.bml?journal=bloodreddreamer&itemid=11999&dir=next   (3150 words)

  
 Flower Delivery Plainfield WI Wisconsin |Order Plainfield Flowers Online | Online Florist | Flower Shop
If I could give one piece of advice to people looking for a reputable flower delivery company, it would be not to be fooled by the superficial look of the website.
If you want to send flowers, roses, plants, bouquets or balloons to Plainfield, WI Wisconsin then you have come to the right place.
Plainfield, WI Wisconsin flower delivery is a service provided by Wesley Berry Flowers since 1946.
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 Map of Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States United States | Multimap.com
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Map of Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States United States
These locations are nearest as the crow flies, but may not be nearest by road.
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 Eddie Gein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin to a pious, Evangelical, extremist, domineering mother, Augusta, and George, his hen pecked, violent, but introverted alcoholic father, who could not keep a job.
To get away from the "depravity" of living in town, Augusta moved her family to a rural 275-acre frame farmhouse outside Plainfield, Wisconsin with no electricity, or plumbing in 1914.
In 1978 he was transferred to the Mendota Mental Health Institute where he died of cancer on July 26, 1984, at the age of 78.
www.karisable.com /skazgein.htm   (1523 words)

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