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Item of the Month – U.S.S. Bayfield Flag
Item of the Month is a series of articles featuring some of the amazing treasures that can be...
Item of the Month – Nurse Uniform
Item of the Month is a series of articles featuring some of the amazing treasures that can be...
Item of the Month – Railroad Date Nails
Item of the Month is a series of articles featuring some of the amazing treasures that can be...
Item of the Month – Tapping for Maple Syrup
Item of the Month is a series of articles featuring some of the amazing treasures that can be...
Item of the Month – Stereoscopes
Item of the Month is a series of articles featuring some of the amazing treasures that can be...
William F. Dalrymple and His Bayfield Transfer and Harbor Project
According to an anonymous writer, William Dalrymple came to Bayfield for his health, a reason why...
The Sawmill Community at Roy’s Point
The Sawmill Community at Roy’s Point chronicles the history of Roy’s Point from 1893 to 1920....
Marvin Defoe’s Birch Bark Canoe
Marvin Defoe pictured with his birch bark canoe. The canoe is on exhibit at the Bayfield Heritage...
1903 High School Baseball Highlights
Lincoln High School Baseball Team - 1903Bayfield County PressMay 1, 1903 Bayfield Boys Easily...
Blueberry Hill
Blueberry HillPhoto: Robert J Nelson CollectionBlueberry Hill From: Ruminations of a Rambler...
Among the Lumber Laddies
Area Logging Camp with the “Cookies” ElevatedBHA: 2010.6.3Among the Lumber Laddies Bayfield County...
Bayfield Apple Festival – The Beginning
First Apple Festival Queen Mary Ahnen, Orchardist John Hauser Sr and Lumberman Henry J...
Stone Quarries of the Apostle Islands
Superior Brown Stone Quarry at Bass Island with Schooner StarlightRD Pike Archive CenterBASS...
Bayfield Canning Company – POW Camp
The Bayfield Canning Company Stockholders Meeting AttendeesBHA: 1980.5Bayfield Canning Company...
A.H. Wilkenson
A.H. Lon Wilkenson with wife Lillian Tate - WilkensonPhoto: Scott HaleA Friend of the Farmer- A.H....
Harvey Nourse – Strawberries
A Two Story Affair ca 1911Photo: Henry Van CleaveBHA: 1980.9.4Harvey Nourse Strawberries Iron...
Orchard Care – 1909
Spraying the Bordeaux chemical mixture on the CultivarsBHA: 1980.1.35Orchard Care, Fertilization,...
R. D. Pike Quarry
RD Pikes Quarry Photo - Building and Ornamental Stones of Wisconsin - 1898PIKES QUARRY South of...
Settlers and Immigrants
At Home on the Township FarmBHA: 2010.06.30Settlers and Immigrants Currie G. Bell- Editor Bayfield...
Farm & Farmer Listing – 1870-2000
Click View PDF to see the detail listing.VIEW PDFThis history brief was written by Robert J....
Apostle Island Farms & Timber Opportunities
Louie and Nana Moe Farmhouse Sand Island. WIBHA: 2010.5.12Apostle Island Land & Timber...
Sand Island Farms & Timber
Frank and Josephine Dutcher-Shaw and children at Sand Island - ca 1900Photo: Burt HillSand Island...
Farm Registrations – 1911
BHA NPSIIDIC 1910Farm Registrations Up-to-Date Bayfield Progress - December 12, 1911 W.H. Holmes-...
Frank Holston
Holstons CrossingBHA 1980.2.428Frank Holston & the First Strawberry Business Excerpt from Men...
Red Cliff State Fair
Red Cliff State Fair ExhibitionRed Cliff State Fair Exhibition Bayfield County Press - September...
Town of Russell Farming Community
Olof Englund Add in the Bayfield Progress - April 27 1916The Town of Russell Farming Community...
An Interesting Talk – William Knight
Bayfield Apple Shed SignBayfield Apple Shed[Signage states: Early in the twentieth century,...
First Annual Produce Fair
Our First Annual Produce Fair- September 10 & 11, 1914 Bayfield Progress - September 18, 1914...
New Railroad to Bayfield
Waterfront at Bayfield Wisconsin - 1911Robert J Nelson CollectionNew Railroad to Bayfield Bayfield...
Labor Day Parade and Bayfield Apple Show
Parade DayPhoto: W James Erickson OrchardsBayfield Booth at the Wisconsin State FairMilwaukee WI -...
C. G. Patten Comments
Oldenburg Duchess Apple Tree in BloomMr. Patten Comments Bayfield County Press - September 6, 1907...
Our Fruit Industry – Nathan Carver
Nathan Carver GrapesOur Fruit Industry By Nathan E. Carver Friday, March 29, 1907 Nathan E....
An Oak Island Farm – 1870
Oak Island Ashland County Plat Book - 1906An Oak Island Farm Hank O. Fifield Bayfield Press -...
Great Developments – A.H. Wilkenson
Bayfield Ridge Map From Geology of Wisconsin - 1880Great Developments Bayfield County Press...
The Model Farm – Joseph Feldmeir
The Feldmeir Farmstead HousePhoto: Richard Wszalek FamilyThe Feldmeir Farmstead BarnPhoto: Richard...
William Knight
William Knight ca 1914William Knight - 1843 – 1941 By Granddaughter Eleanor Knight (1913-1994) In...
Island Orchards – Roswell Pendergast
Roswell H. Pendergast - Minnesota Horticulturist Offered by the Minnesota State Historical...
Pinehurst Maple Sugar Camp – The Sugar Bush
Harvey and David Nourse Sugar Bush OperationPhoto: Cover Wisconsin Tails and Trails spring 1961The...
Comments on the Apple Industry Local District
Presently Hauser Superior View OrchardPhoto: Henry Van CleaveComments on Apple Industry Local...
Fruit Handled in 1903
Martin and Christine Erickson picking Cortland apples on the old Erickson farm ca 1960sPhoto:...
Hauser’s Superior View Farm – John Hauser
John Frederik HauserPhoto: Superior View Farms Hauser FamilyRaising Mums with his SonsDawson,...
Salmo Trail Orchard
Duchess of Oldenburg apple trees May 25 2015Established 1906-1910Section 21 33695 Milligan Road,...
Fruit Industry – George H. Whiting Orchard
George H. WhitingFruit Industry of the Bayfield Peninsula Excerpt by Harvey Nourse Bayfield County...
Early Farmsteads – Plat Maps Russell
Click Image for Full-Size View1906 Town of Russell PlatEarly Farmsteads Township of Russell T 51 N...
Early Farmsteads – Plat Maps Bayfield
Click Image for Full-Size View1906 Plat Town of BayfieldEarly Farmsteads Town of Bayfield T 50 N...
Fruit Shippers Association – Part 2
On the lake side of the intersection of Manypenny and 1st Street.Bayfield Fruit Shippers...
Fruit Shippers Association – Part 1
Employees of the Bayfield Fruit Packing Company - July 11 1933Photo: James and Marge Miller...
Bayfield Peninsula Horticultural Society
Bayfield Horticultural Society - The Horticultural Society often held their meetings in the old...
An Erratic Proposition – William Knight
William Knight ca 1915William Knight and one of his early Orchards ca 1915An Erratic Proposition...
Fruit Fields of the Northwest – Part 2
William Knight's Cherry Orchard at the Summit FarmHenry Van Cleave, Bayfield, WIBHA...
Fruit Fields of the Northwest – Part 1
William KnightPhoto: Scott HaleFruit Fields of the Northwest - Part I By William Knight Bayfield...
The Great Growing Section
Platted Section Map of Bayfield and Ashland CountiesJune 3, 1871The Great Growing Section Bayfield...
Oldest Farms
Possible Early Elisha Pikes Mill Site ca 1890'sA Pike’s Creek Farm and Homestead Bayfield Mercury...
Stranger’s Opinion of Bayfield’s Fruit Future
Stranger’s Opinion of Bayfield’s Fruit FutureAE Tyler FarmBayfield Progress - September 30,...
Bayfield County Early Agriculture
Bayfield County - Sand Island WI Farm ca 1906BHA 2012 FIC 130Bayfield County's Early History By O....
Bayfield Farming – A Success – 1871
Children with Tub of Apples at the Burt Hill Orchard on Sand Island WINPSIIDIC 1910c11Bayfield...
Fruit Industry of Bayfield Peninsula – 1910
Bayfield Peninsula - 1916 MapFruit Industry of the Bayfield Peninsula By Harvey Nourse (Excerpt)...
Bayfield’s Big Berries – Harvey Nourse
Harvey Nourse Berry PatchBHA 83.11.106Bayfield’s Big Berries Harvey Nourse Tells all the State...
The Evidence Accumulates – August Turnquist
August Turnquist FarmBayfield Progress - September 23, 1909Evidence Accumulates A brief visit to...
One Idea Farming
Anna Mae Shaw - left - and Friends on South 2nd Street ca 1906Photo: Burt HillFaith in the Region...
Inside the Creamery
Inside the CreameryBHA 1980.4.142Butter & Ice Cream Factory Bayfield Progress - June 15, 1916...
Near the Banks of the Onion River
Harvey Nourse Onion River Farm...
Surely a Fruit Country
Harvey Nourse Berry Patch at Pikes CreekBHA 2008.016.094Surely a Fruit Country W.H. Holmes-...
Danger in Apostle Island Logging
Timber hauled to the railroad on logging carsBHA 1980.4.143Danger in Apostle Island Logging July...
Apostle Island Park Exploration – 1930
Rocky IslandRobert J Nelson CollectionCutover Conditions Kill National Park Project: 1929-1931 A...
Federal Forest in the Making
Federal Forest in the Making - Bayfield County Press - May 9, 1929Federal Forest in the Making...
Logging Cedar on Rocky Island – 1928
Eli LaPointe Logging Camp on Rocky IslandRobert J Nelson CollectionLogging Cedar on Rocky (Rice’s)...
Logging Operations at Oak Island
Wally Young at one of the remaining Oak Island Schroeder Lumber Cabins ca 1930s.Robert J. Nelson...
True Hometown Built – Tug Bayfield
Click or tap photos for full-size view.The Tug BayfieldJim and Marge Miller Family...
Early Vessels that Transported Lumber and Pulled Tows
Click or tap photos for full-size view.The Henry Baldwin loads lumber at RD Pike Dock in Bayfield...
Bayfield Waterfront Dock Fire – 1908
Click or tap photos for full-size view.East Dock Lumber Piles & Tramway Ablaze taken from the...
Island Logging
The Former Rocky Island-Eli LaPointe Logging Camp Cook Shack & Bunkhouse, ca 1940’s here used...
Mystic Tales of Paul Bunyan
Paul BunyanEvening Telegram - Superior WisconsinFebruary 4 1935[The famous Paul, who was on...
Honoring the Lumberjacks
Three Hardy Lumberjacks who claimed they knew Paul Bunyan intimately. Posing with three of his...
Big Boom Tug Van Raalte – Ashland
Tug AshlandPhoto: James and Marge Miller familyTowing Tug Van Raalte- Aka Ashland Bayfield County...
Red Cliff Lumber Companies – Part 3
Buffalo Bay: 1898 Bayfield County Press Managing Editor- Burton P. Hill Saturday, September 3,...
Red Cliff Lumber Companies – Part 2
Bayfield Transfer Railroad Toonerville Trolley in Russell TownshipBHA 80.1.427Red Cliff Lumber...
Red Cliff Lumber Companies – Part 1
Red Cliff State Fair ExhibitionBayfield Heritage AssociationAn Early Red Cliff Lumber Company ...
Visiting a Modern Lumber Camp – 1921
Wachsmuth Lumber Camp at Belanger Settlement - Township of Bayfield ca 1910BHA 2004.23.4Visiting a...
Where have all the forests gone?
The Bayfield hillside 1911 - South 5th Street and Wilson AvenueRobert J Nelson CollectionWhere...
S.S. Vaughn Mill
Lady Elgin at the Port of ChicagoBHA 80.1.435“The first steamer that arrived at Bayfield was the...
Old Saw Mills Farewell
William Knight’s Old Mill at Roy’s PointBurt Hill Photo"The Old Saw Mills Farewell" Bayfield...
Lumber Industry in Bayfield Wisconsin
Last log cut at the Wachsmuth Mill.BHA PhotoLumber Industry in Bayfield Bayfield County Press...
Public Knowledge: Timberland and Shipping Activities
The Steamer Peshtigo Loading PlankBHA 2000.43.7Public Knowledge: Timberland and Shipping...
Western Emigration & Speculation
Tall TimberWHS.060Western Emigration and Speculation Bayfield Mercury August 22, 1857 “My father...
Big Mills Still Lumbering
Millpond and Henry J Wachsmuth Lumber Mill ca 1920BHA 1980.4.12Big Mills Still Lumbering By...
End of an Era – Melvin Clark
Tug Bayfield gathers the log boom near Cornucopia ca 1910.End of an Era By Melvin R. Clark Mel...
Bayfield County Log Cut – 1887
Drawing by Bayfield Artist - Bessie NourseBayfield Counties Log Cut Bayfield County Press December...
Interview with a Veteran Saw Mill Man – R.D. Pike
Robinson Derling Pike - Bayfield County Press - March 6, 1903Interview with a Veteran Saw Mill Man...
Inside the R.D. Pike Mill
R.D. Pike Lumber Mill ca 1875 Photo BHA 1999.25.006Inside the R. D. Pike Saw Mill Bayfield County...
The Frank Holston Lumber Camp
Squaw Bay - Mawikwe Bay presently - train trestle near the campsite ca 1900 BHA 83.9.2Squaw Bay -...
Henry J. Wachsmuth – The “Big Push”
Henry J. WachsmuthHenry J. Wachsmuth - The “Big Push” Wachsmuth Lumber Company By Journalist-...