About Us

River Valley opened Dec. 8, 1967, in a small house on the corner of Kort and Volkman streets in Rothschild, Wisconsin with $500,000. It was the bank’s commitment to business banking that attracted the Nicklaus family. Ron and Kay Nicklaus, farmers from the Tug Lake area in central Wisconsin who became the nation’s largest producer and harvester of green beans, purchased majority stock in River Valley. River Valley now operates in 16 communities throughout central and northern Wisconsin.