by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 23, 2021 | Apostle Islands, Brownstone, History Briefs
Stone Quarries of the Apostle Islands Superior Brown Stone Quarry at Bass Island with Schooner StarlightRD Pike Archive Center BASS ISLAND QUARRY ‘The first quarry in this area was opened in 1868 on Bass Island, by the Bass Island Brownstone Company. The first stone... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 23, 2021 | Apostle Islands, History Briefs, Logging
Apostle Island Farms & Timber Opportunities Louie and Nana Moe Farmhouse Sand Island. WIBHA: 2010.5.12 Apostle Island Land & Timber Opportunities In this almost primitive northern land, with its millions of tons of mineral wealth and its thousands of miles of... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 23, 2021 | Apostle Islands, History Briefs, Logging
Sand Island Farms & Timber Frank and Josephine Dutcher-Shaw and children at Sand Island – ca 1900 Photo: Burt Hill Sand Island Farm Life By Robert J. Nelson The practice to farm, lumber, along with operating an established fish camp on Sand Island started... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 23, 2021 | Agriculture, Apostle Islands, History Briefs
An Oak Island Farm – 1870 Oak Island Ashland County Plat Book – 1906 An Oak Island Farm Hank O. Fifield Bayfield Press – October 27, 1870 Oak Island is being improved in the way of buildings quite rapidly. James Chapman & Company has put up one... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 23, 2021 | Apostle Islands, Fruit Farms, History Briefs, People
Island Orchards – Roswell Pendergast Roswell H. Pendergast – Minnesota Horticulturist Offered by the Minnesota State Historical Society Ventures forth Roswell H. Pendergast By Robert J. Nelson To say that Roswell H. Pendergast was the first Bayfield... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 21, 2021 | Apostle Islands, History Briefs, Logging
Danger in Apostle Island Logging Timber hauled to the railroad on logging carsBHA 1980.4.143 Danger in Apostle Island Logging July 16, 1924: Young Man Killed at Presque Isle Camp; Hugh Perrin, the 21 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Perrin, Russell Crossing-Town of...