by Bayfield Heritage Association | Nov 1, 2021 | History Briefs, People
1903 High School Baseball Highlights Lincoln High School Baseball Team – 1903 Bayfield County PressMay 1, 1903 Bayfield Boys Easily Defeat Washburn’s: Boys Played Good Ball: – Score 10 to 6. For the first time the Bayfield high school has a baseball team... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 23, 2021 | Agriculture, History Briefs, People
A.H. Wilkenson A.H. Lon Wilkenson with wife Lillian Tate – WilkensonPhoto: Scott Hale A Friend of the Farmer- A.H. Wilkenson From Bayfield’s storied historian Eleanor Knight, we learn much about financiering of the horticultural endeavors of the pioneering... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 23, 2021 | Fruit Farms, History Briefs, People
Harvey Nourse – Strawberries A Two Story Affair ca 1911Photo: Henry Van CleaveBHA: 1980.9.4 Harvey Nourse Strawberries Iron River Pioneer & Bayfield Progress – July 6, 1911 [Headed by “Brother P. J. Savage, the able editor and municipal judge, the Iron... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 23, 2021 | Agriculture, History Briefs, People
Frank Holston Holstons CrossingBHA 1980.2.428 Frank Holston & the First Strawberry Business Excerpt from Men of the Hour Bayfield Progress, George W. Boutin – Publisher – April 8, 1915 In the spring of 1882 Frank V. Holston came to Bayfield from the City of... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 23, 2021 | Fruit Farms, History Briefs, People
An Interesting Talk – William Knight Bayfield Apple Shed Sign Bayfield Apple Shed [Signage states: Early in the twentieth century, William Knight, a Bayfield businessman, was pioneering in apple growing in the hills north and west of the city. His new orchards planted... 
by Bayfield Heritage Association | Aug 23, 2021 | Fruit Farms, History Briefs, People
C. G. Patten Comments Oldenburg Duchess Apple Tree in Bloom Mr. Patten Comments Bayfield County Press – September 6, 1907 Headlines on this date rang out, Fruit Raiser Here; C. G. Patten of Charles City, Iowa Looks over Bayfield Peninsula; Thinks Well of...