STEVENS POINT  , a city and the county-seat of Portage county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., on both banks of the Wisconsin river, about 110 m . N. of Madison . Pop . (189o), 7896; (1900), 9524, of whom 2205 were foreign-born; (1910 U.S. census), 8692 . Stevens Point is served by the Green Bay & Western and the Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault Ste Marie railways . It is attractively situated, has a fine public school system, including a high school, a manual training school, a domestic science department, and kindergarten and day schools for the deaf . It is the seat of one of the state normal schools (1894), of St Joseph's Academy (Polish), and of the Stevens Point Commercial College, and has a Carnegie library (1904), the Portage county court-house, a city hospital, and a tuberculosis sanatorium . The city is situated in the borders of the pine timber region, and the lumber industry predominates . There are railway repair shops here, and various manufactures . The city has a considerable wholesale jobbing trade, and is an important point of shipment for the products of the agricultural country in the vicinity . Stevens Point was first settled by George Stevens in 1839, was incorporated as a village in 1847, and was first chartered as a city in 1858 .