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Community: La Pointe
County: Ashland
Historic Name: Trout Point Logging Camp
Reference Number: 88002756
Photograph

Madeline Island Logging Camp

Date: 1910
Description: Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background.
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Logging Camp at Big Bay

Date: 1910
Description: Logging Camp dock and buildings made of logs. Madeline Island shoreline on the bank of Lake Superior.
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Log Booms on Chequamegon Bay

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view of logs stored in a logging boom on Chequamegon Bay.
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Logging Train

Date: 1910
Description: Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company locomotive Number 1, loaded with logs and flanked by large piles of logs.
Waterfront Park

Ashland Memorial Park

Location: Hwy 2
Nearby City: Ashland, Ashland County
Body of water: Lake Superior
Photograph

Logs in Ashland Harbor

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland.
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Ore dock of Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad

Date: 1885
Description: View of the ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad. Large logs, buildings and a railroad bridge are in the foreground.
Property Record

ROCKY ISLAND (APOSTLE ISLANDS)

Community: La Pointe
County: Ashland
Historic Name: Erickson Fish Camp - Erickson Cabin
Reference Number: 122051
Property Record

ROCKY ISLAND (APOSTLE ISLANDS)

Community: La Pointe
County: Ashland
Historic Name: Erickson Fish Camp - Storage Shed
Reference Number: 225430
Property Record

ROCKY ISLAND (APOSTLE ISLANDS)

Community: La Pointe
County: Ashland
Historic Name: Erickson Fish Camp - auxiliary buildings
Reference Number: 225432
Property Record

ROCKY ISLAND (APOSTLE ISLANDS)

Community: La Pointe
County: Ashland
Historic Name: Erickson Fish Camp - Dock
Reference Number: 225431
Property Record

0.25 miles west of STH 112 and CTH K

Community: Ashland
County: Ashland
Historic Name: John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport - Terminal
Reference Number: 244559
Historical Essay

Ojibwe Court Case

Buffalo and O-Sho-Ga Protest Forced Removal
Discover how two Ojibwe chiefs traveled to Washington DC and negotiated with President Millard Fillmore to keep rights to their land.
Historical Essay

A Summer Place - Image Gallery Essay

Photographs from the Apostle Islands
Learn about the history of the Apostle Islands in the northnmost part of Wisconsin, a popular summer refuge for tourists and residents.
Archaeological Site

Basswood Island Quarry Dock

Nearby City: Bayfield, Ashland County
Body of water: Lake Superior

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