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Newspaper Article/Clipping

Historic saw mill is closed

Date: 1930-11-12
County: Bayfield
City: Drummond
Photograph

Logging at Cable

Date: 1906
Description: Ole Emerson's lumber property. A man is standing on top of a load of logs being pulled by a team of two horses on a sled through the snow. Caption from cal...
Postcard

Norway Piling, Drummond, Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: View across railroad tracks towards train flatbeds stacked with large pine logs. There is a man standing further down the tracks looking towards the flatbe...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Lumberjacks and river hogs

Date: 1935-01-23
County: Bayfield
City: Iron River
Photograph

Cove Logging Camp on Lake Namakagon

Date: 1900
Description: Cove Logging camp at future site of Forest Lodge property. The log building on the hill became the main house at Forest Lodge in 1902 when Crawford Livings...
Photograph

Pine Forest Harvesting

Date: 09 06 1895
Description: View of a partially harvested pine forest nine miles southwest of Washburn. A pathway is being cut for a narrow gauge logging railroad.
Photograph

Ole Emerson's Lumber Property

Date: 1904
Description: Winter scene with lumber workers hauling a large log with horses.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Southern Part of Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: This manuscript map of southern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, covers the towns of Cable and Drummond and portions of Grandview and Namekagon. Shown are the t...
Postcard

Log Train, Drummond, Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: View across snowy ground towards a steam-belching train engine on the right pulling flatbeds of stacked logs near a forest of tall pines. Caption reads: "L...
Waterfront Park

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

Location: Old Courthouse on Washington Ave.
Nearby City: Bayfield, Bayfield County
Body of water: Lake Superior
Museum

Bayfield Heritage Center

Location: 30 North Broad Street
Nearby City: Bayfield, Bayfield County
Body of water: Lake Superior
Photograph

Log Cabin at Cove Logging Camp

Date: 1900
Description: One-story long horizontal log building with one chimney. Four men are on a wood porch on the right, and one man is standing in the lawn holding a watering ...
Photograph

Seven Men Lounging in front of Log Cabin

Date: 1902
Description: Crawford Livingston, wearing white shirt with a straw boater hat laying on the ground in front of him, and six friends are in various longing positions in ...
Historical Essay

19th-Century Immigration and Growth

A Short History of Wisconsin
Read about immigration and economic growth in 19th-century Wisconsin.
National or State Registers Record

Garmisch Road (HC 73, Box 705)

Community: Namakagon
County: Bayfield
Historic Name: Forest Lodge
Reference Number: 02000031
Feature Story

Finnish Log Home Rehabilitated by Grandson

John Palo Homestead, Oulu, Wisconsin
A 1909 Wisconsin northwoods log home rehabilitation preserves family heritage and an important piece of the state's history. Tax credits helped fund t

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