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Prentice is a village in Price County, Wisconsin, United States, near where Highway 13 crosses the Jump River. The population was 563 at the 2020 census. The village is located within the Town of Prentice. == History == The area that would become Prentice was big woods until 1873, when the Wisconsin Central Railroad built its rail line up through the forest, heading from Stevens Point for Ashland. The railroad built stations at regular intervals and the crossing of the Jump River was the right distance from the previous station at Ogema. The railroad initially named its station at that crossing Malden. In 1881 Alexander Prentice and George Greenman came north from Portage, scouting for a good place to build a lumber mill. They found plenty of timber around Malden station, and chose a mill site just south of where the railroad crossed the river. They were soon joined by workers who began building a sawmill and an 8-foot dam across the Jump. In 1882 they incorporated the Jump River Lumber Company and in September began sawing.