by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 21, 2021 | Apostle Islands, History Briefs, Logging
Logging Cedar on Rocky Island – 1928 Eli LaPointe Logging Camp on Rocky IslandRobert J Nelson Collection Logging Cedar on Rocky (Rice’s) Island It would be well to know that the transcriber also spent a good portion of his life on Rocky Island and grew up there... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 21, 2021 | Apostle Islands, History Briefs, Logging
Logging Operations at Oak Island Wally Young at one of the remaining Oak Island Schroeder Lumber Cabins ca 1930s.Robert J. Nelson Collection Logging Operations over at Oak Island Bayfield County Press March 14, 1929 The reader will note that much logging... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 21, 2021 | History Briefs, Logging, Transportation
Bayfield Waterfront Dock Fire – 1908 Click or tap photos for full-size view. East Dock Lumber Piles & Tramway Ablaze taken from the Bayfield Transfer Railroad Trestle.BHA 1983.32.39 Bayfield Flats and Waterfront c 1911Robert J Nelson Collection Bayfield... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 21, 2021 | Apostle Islands, History Briefs, Logging
Island Logging The Former Rocky Island-Eli LaPointe Logging Camp Cook Shack & Bunkhouse, ca 1940’s here used in the commercial fish camp operation of Louie Olson.Photo Robert J. Nelson Collection Apostle Islands Logging After the John Schroeder Lumber Company, the... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 21, 2021 | History Briefs, Logging, People
Mystic Tales of Paul Bunyan Paul BunyanEvening Telegram – Superior WisconsinFebruary 4 1935 [The famous Paul, who was on display at the Bunyan picnic near Bayfield, the most interesting of Bunyan relics was the painting of the artist’s conception of the... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 21, 2021 | History Briefs, Logging
Honoring the Lumberjacks Click or tap photos for full-size view. Three Hardy Lumberjacks who claimed they knew Paul Bunyan intimately. Posing with three of his possessions are Edward Nelson with the axe, Frank Starke with the pipe, and John Holt with the cant...