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In 2000, a new elementary school was built at the top of the hill. The community briefly discussed naming it "Plank Hill
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The field atop Plank Hill was once home to the Eau Claire Gun Club. Plans to pave the hill as part of a highway to
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but then they turned the sand into planks and then the horses did not have to walk through sand.'
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