![Rice Lake Church](http://www.paqueenie.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ricelakechurchweb1-740x494.jpg)
Hard to believe this area was a thriving community, with a general store, photography gallery, blacksmith, hotel and barber store, and big plans to expand with the railroad coming through. But in 1865, the tracks were laid a few miles south and Rice Lake village disappeared.