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Newspaper Article/Clipping

Logging camp yarns

Date: 
County: Eau Claire
City: Eau Claire
Photograph

Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum

Date: 1946
Description: Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Tells of logging camp in the pioneer days

Date: 1916-12-08
County: Eau Claire
City: Eau Claire
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Cruising, surveying, logging and log driving and dam building in pioneer days of north Wis.

Date: 1916-03-09
County: Eau Claire
City: Eau Claire
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Presents log camp model to library here

Date: 1918-08-15
County: Eau Claire
City: Eau Claire
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Early lumbering days in Eau Claire recalled

Date: 1916-05-16
County: Eau Claire
City: Eau Claire
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Eau Claire

Date: 1880
Description: Bird's-eye view of Eau Claire.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Eau claire once sawdust city of wisconsin, loses last vestige of old glory

Date: 1931-09-18
County: Eau Claire
City: Eau Claire
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Sawmill days of city are ended after 84 years;once led world in lumber trade

Date: 1930-03-17
County: Eau Claire
City: Eau Claire
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Eau Claire editor, after visit to Menomonie in 1860, wrote up town

Date: 1914-06-06
County: Eau Claire
City: Eau Claire
Photograph

Log Stamp Patterns

Date: 1951
Description: A collection of end stamp patterns used to identify the owners of logs, as exhibited in the Paul Bunyan Camp Museum in Carson Park.
Photograph

Carson Park on Chippewa River in Eau Claire

Date: 1930
Description: Carson Park on the Chippewa River, with the entrance to a tunnel which was used to transport logs from the river into Half Moon Lake.
Photograph

At the Mouth of the Menominee River

Date: 1887
Description: A view at the mouth of the Menominee River showing Ludington Wells and Van Schaick's mills.
Postcard

Half Moon Lake and Island

Date: 
Description: Black and white illustration of Half Moon Lake with log jams and an island. Caption reads: "Half Moon Lake and Island, Eau Claire, Wis."
Property Record

CARSON PARK

Community: Eau Claire
County: Eau Claire
Historic Name: Paul Bunyan Camp
Reference Number: 40948
Postcard

Half Moon Lake and Island

Date: 1900
Description: Black and white elevated view of Half Moon Lake and Island. Logs are in a boom in the lake. Caption reads: "Half Moon Lake and Island," and "Eau Claire, Wi...
Historical Essay

Beef Slough War

Read about the Beef Slough War, a business conflict over access to timer in the Chippewa River watershed
Postcard

Log Jam in Dells Pond

Date: 1910
Description: A colored photographic postcard view of a large log jam in the Dells Pond at Eau Claire. There are "booms" and several men standing on logs. Caption reads:...
Print

Porters Mills Post Office Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Post Office in Porters Mills, Wisconsin, with a man putting mail into post office boxes, a padlocked mail bag that serves as a signboard ...

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