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Photograph

Overpass on U.S. Highway 2

Date: 1948
Description: The U.S. Highway 2 overpass spans two sets of railroad tracks that cross beneath at Ashland Junction. One railroad line belongs to the Northern Pacific Rai...
Photograph

Overpass on U.S. Highway 2

Date: 1948
Description: The U.S. Highway 2 overpass spans two sets of railroad tracks that cross beneath at Ashland Junction. One railroad line belongs to the Northern Pacific Rai...
Postcard

Saw Mill

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the saw mill. Lumber is stacked in front of several buildings and railroad tracks. Caption reads: "Saw Mill, Bayfield, Wis."
Photograph

Aerial View of Washburn

Date: 1935
Description: Aerial view, taken from an airplane, overlooking the streets, houses, stores, trees and railroad cars.
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...
Property Record

CA.530 W BAYFIELD ST

Community: Washburn
County: Bayfield
Historic Name: CABOOSE
Reference Number: 153485
Property Record

SE CNR OF W RAILROAD ST AND N LEA ST

Community: Iron River
County: Bayfield
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 15547
Photograph

Crawford Livingston, Jr.

Date: 
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Crawford Livingston Jr., a railroad man who lived in St. Paul, Minnesota. Crawford Livingston purchased the land and built...
Photograph

Drummond Store

Date: 1936
Description: Exterior three-quarter length view of a large two-story building with one chimney. There are two main entrances with steps leading up to the doorways of wh...
Property Record

N MAIN AND RAILROAD ST

Community: Iron River
County: Bayfield
Historic Name: IRON RIVER RR DEPOT
Reference Number: 1125
Property Record

1 WASHINGTON AVE

Community: Bayfield
County: Bayfield
Historic Name: TRANSFER DEPOT
Reference Number: 1453
Property Record

221 CENTRAL AVE

Community: Washburn
County: Bayfield
Historic Name: BERT HARRINGTON HOUSE
Reference Number: 154001
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

Phillips 66

Date: 1938
Description: View across road of the Route 66 service station. Automobiles and a Phillips 66 Chequamegon Oil Co. truck are in the parking lot. Signs around the Route 66...
Property Record

15990 COUNTY HIGHWAY H

Community: Delta
County: Bayfield
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 1039
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland County & Part Bayfield County, Wisconsin, Showing Wisconsin Central Rail Road Lands Corrected to February 15th

Date: 1900
Description: This 1900 map shows the township and range system, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, vacant land and land sold by the Wisconsin Central Rail...
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...
Photograph

Airplane View of Cable

Date: 1932
Description: Aerial view of town.
Photograph

Aerial View of Cable

Date: 1936
Description: Aerial view of Cable, in northern Wisconsin. Text at foot reads: "Airplane View of Cable, Wis. 244."
Property Record

309 WING AVE

Community: Bayfield
County: Bayfield
Historic Name: Herbert C. Hale House
Reference Number: 1393

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