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Wood Carving at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is carving a face onto a log using a chainsaw. Other men are looking at chainsaws displayed on a pile of birch tree logs. A sign on a trailer behind ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Wisconsin's men of wealth have been faithful servants of state

Date: 1910-08-29
County: Portage
City: Stevens Point
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Reminescences. The tale of the lumberjack

Date: 1930-05-31
County: Portage
City: 
Photograph

Two Unidentified Deer Hunters with Four Dead Deer

Date: 1908
Description: Two deer hunters are sitting on a low bench with their rifles and four killed deer. The deer have tags on their ears.
Photograph

Log Chopping Contest at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is standing on top of a braced wood block. He is bending over as he swings his ax at the wood block on which he is standing. A crowd of people are wa...
Photograph

Scouler & Jacobson Lumber Company

Date: 1905
Description: View looking east of logs floating in the pond at Scouler & Jacobson Lumber Company. Logs were dumped into the pond from the rollways on the left and sent ...
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

3190 CTY RD Q

Community: Nelsonville
County: Portage
Historic Name: Rising Star Flouring Mill
Reference Number: 100002444

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