Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Creed and Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Henry Darling first settled the Village of Unity in 1872. Creed was the one who chose the name Unity because of the unification of the people who had settled here. In 1873 a man named Mr. J.D. Spanulding came to Unity from Black River Falls and built a sawmill. This sawmill opened up many new jobs, created a high demand for hotels and homes to be built. Thus, Unity began growing. In 1874 Unity built its first one-room schoolhouse and in the same year, the railroad was completed. In 1883, John R. Salter organized the construction of the first High School; that burned down in the fall of 1890. A new grade school/high school was built in 1910. The church was built in 1880; and destroyed by a tornado in 1905. Due to hard work, the small town became home to as many as 424 people. Unity established itself to be a very prosperous community with pride in the rich heritage that has been before us.