Antoine and Sarah Gordon settled here in 1858, establishing a home and businesses that contributed to the founding of the town of Gordon. They built a cabin and trading post along the Trail to La Pointe, an overland path of Native origin that was an alternative to the Brule-St. Croix Portage. This trail became the first road, mail route, and stagecoach line of northern Wisconsin. The Ojibwe/Metis settlement of Amick, meaning “beaver,” developed around the trading post. The Metis people, a unique and identifiable cultural group of mixed French and Native descent, bridged relationships between Native American tribes and people of European descent during Wisconsin’s fur trade and early settlement era. The Gordons wielded powerful regional influence in social, political, and economic development. The Amick Post Office was established in 1860. Amick remained a predominantly Ojibwe and Metis settlement well into the 1880s, when lumber interests from the Lower St. Croix Valley began to settle here. In 1882, a rail line was built through the community, and the station was named Gordon, which became the name of the town.