The Sawmill Community at Roy’s Point chronicles the history of Roy’s Point from 1893 to 1920....
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Logging Articles
Among the Lumber Laddies
Area Logging Camp with the “Cookies” ElevatedBHA: 2010.6.3Among the Lumber Laddies Bayfield County...
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...
Danger in Apostle Island Logging
Timber hauled to the railroad on logging carsBHA 1980.4.143Danger in Apostle Island Logging July...
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...
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...
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-...