Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Emerson Camp Loggers Logging Wisconsin Postcard Circa 1890's at the best online prices at eBay! E. Grand Avenue. Land surveyors documenting the township of (what would become) Manitowish Waters in 1862 followed a national model. May-Oct: Mon-Thurs: 8am-4:30pm. (22) Importantly land grants from the Wisconsin Central reached the western border of Manitowish Waters, suggesting early railroad influence. Today, residents and visitors in Manitowish Waters can enjoy drinks and dining on the same historic logging camp property at the Pea Patch Saloon. The most storied and closest local lumber mill was Buswell on the southeast shore of Papoose Lake. Early dam operation in support of logging ravaged the original shores of Manitowish Waters. to Buswell on Papoose Lake. Information: 715-835-6200. The shift northeast by the Chicago Northwestern railroad from Mercer accessed pristine hardwoods and pines, influencing new communities and created rail spurs that reached almost to Circle Lily Lake. Maintained as a furnished museum. Retrieved 2-3-18. electricity for the Sawmill complex and the village. 20. Able to accommodate logs delivered by both water and roads his family created a small but well-engineered system. William Caxton Ltd: Sister Bay WI. (69), In the Manitowish Waters area both the Chicago Northwestern and Milwaukee lines serviced numerous lumber companies on the same rail lines and railroad spurs. by Michael Dunn III, Michael Dunn cover letter to 2017 narratives. Busswell Lumber Co. train Provider's name: Ticket to Buswell Facebook page URL: https://www.facebook.com/TicketToBuswell/photos/a.1635977279981942.1073741829.1635294486716888/1916015445311456/?type=3&theater, Phase 2 Railroad Logging of Hardwoods and Other Timber 1889 - 1929. Craig Moore. Manitowish Waters Historical Society Each winter, the lumberjacks occupied nearly 450 logging camps. Timothy Sasse. Koller Library Dunn, Michael. Looking back at the logging years. While traveling from the town of Manitowish to Circle Lily Lake to check a trap line with local guide Fay Buck, the author shares: On this first day, as we were going along the logging trail which lead out of Manitowish, we came upon a man lying on his back on the snow in the middle of the road. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Wisconsin. The transition between phase 1 river drive logging and phase 2 railroad logging blurred at the turn of the 20th century. The C&NW provided rail to the company for construction of these lines. (I think the working population of the Pine woods is the lowest, filthiest and most degraded class of man I have ever seen in any part of the United States). Historian Malcolm Rosholt describes breaking for meals in the cold of the northwoods in The Wisconsin Logging Book 1839-1939 (1980): The food was brought out to the crews in acompartmentalized container strapped to the backof the lunch carrier, or hauled out in a single horsesled. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973)], Sign up for the Wisconsin Historical Society Newsletter, 1996-2023 Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706. In 1905 the Milwaukee Road Line was extended from Boulder Jct. This practice worked well with white pines, but red pines, hardwoods and even softwoods like birch would ultimately sink. Lumbermen on the Chippewa. Map of Wisconsin treaties, including the 1837 and 1842 treaties with the Ojibwa, Modern historian Ronald Satzs exhaustive research reveals the disingenuous and manipulative treaty process that ultimately ceded most of the northern half of Wisconsin to the Federal government. One by one, the floating logs were hoisted 12 feet on a chain-driven track into the mill, where they slid down a chute to a deck. The Native Vegetation of Wisconsin : at the Time of the Original Land Survey. Page 162. map or consult forester for additional . Wisconsin lumber was used to construct buildings and houses for the Midwest's growing cities. . access previously uncut hardwoods and red pines while also removing white pines too distant from river systems. They were built in lakefront cities such as Sheboygan, Manitowoc and Milwaukee. Vilas County. Looking back at the logging years. Thanks! (54) In both these references, the authors link phase 1 and phase 2 Northwoods logging with American Western frontier. "(19), Timber Cruiser blazing old growth trees Copywritten image published with permission. During that time, it's open 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 1998-2023 TopoGrafix 24 Kirkland Dr, Stow, MA Email: support@expertgps.com, Click here to download GPS waypoints and POIs for all of the camps in Wisconsin in GPX format, Wisconsin maps and GPS data layers are available here, your free trial of ExpertGPS map software, Delta Civilian Conservation Corps Camp (historical), Long Lake Civilian Conservation Corps Camp (historical), Sawyer Civilian Conservation Corps Camp (historical), Clam Lake Civilian Conservation Corps Camp (historical), Download a GPX file containing all of the camps in Wisconsin, Download and install ExpertGPS mapping software. Dunns analysis of the three hoists on the Manitowish Chain illustrates the importance of both steamboat transport and Rest Lake dam operations to phase 2 logging: Two logging railroad spurs were pushed to the shores of the chain on Rest and Little Star lakes. Cut trees were transported by rail to lumber mills both near and far. Wisconsin Historical Society. 35 Register of Deeds, Eagle River Courthouse. Each day, with so many variables that could go wrong: experience, resourcefulness, courage and grit were the human resources required to succeed. Michael Dunn and Paul Brenner have written extensively regarding steamboat use on the chain of lakes. State of Wisconsin Collection. Image # 97107. Importantly, Michael Dunn has additional insights and details regarding river drives that corroborate Brenners narrative: Every few days a gate in the dam was opened and a large batch of logs was sluiced through, followed by a dose of water large enough to assure that the logs would float freely downstream but not enough to wash the logs ashore along the river's wandering course. Save the GPX file on your desktop. First, creating wagon access at Woodruff in 1888, one year later. In 1931 Dr. Roy E. Mitchell and Dr. E.C. The Wisconsin Central (Soo Line) reached Ashland, WI to the north and Marshfield & Stevens Point, WI to the South. Please watch and enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJDD9VCSfpY. establishing the most significant long term rail depot in the town of Manitowish, WI. Immigrant Entrepreneurship. Wisconsin Reports 164/Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin 1916-1917. April 29 at 8pm thru April 30 at 3pm . Fredrick Weyerhaeuser. The soft pine forests of northern and central Wisconsin provided a seemingly endless supply of raw material to urban markets. The loggers built a series of dams to raise the water up considerably and they had one at Rest Lake which is where Manitowish Waters is now. Dozens of small companies there combined into a conglomerate led by Frederick Weyerhaeuser. Actually, logging companies would release and rebuild dam reserves throughout the spring to flash logs downstream. Driven by unprecedented demand of the post war boom, both logging and Manitowish Waters began to grow. 13 http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/maps/id/19986/rec/1. Manitowish Waters Historical Society. Page 164. (4) By 1854, treaties had thoroughly divided northern Wisconsin into tribal reservations and government lands, all of which were to be surveyed by the mid 1860s into numerous, mostly unpopulated townships. (3) In the late 1840s and early 1850s Wisconsin Ojibwa effectively resisted a removal order to Sandy Lake, Minnesota by the federal government, and were later consolidated on Wisconsin reservations. Open Saturdays 10 a.m.-3 p.m., July and August, or by appointment, call 715-276-3505. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Koller Library. Page 74-75. Pages 133. But the industry faced many obstacles. .P. 2-16-2018. James P. Kaysen. The city is located partially within the Town of Chetek. In spite of immediate and strenuous objections by Ojibwa leaders, missionaries, and some government agents, the treaties of 1837 and 1842 were enforced to largely benefit Euro-American commerce and settlement. Manitowish Waters Historical Society. 19 Fries, Robert F. Empire In Pine the Story of Lumbering in Wisconsin. (11) (12) Cornell and Wisconsin Central Railroad lands stretched to Manitowish Waters. There was also a side track at Rice Creek Bridge where a self-propelled log loading crane could come and load logs rafted from the lakes of the chain or floated down from above Big or Round Lakes.(57). RPPC Sawyer Goodman Co. Logging Wisconsin 1911 Camp 5 Mailed - eBay The Menomineee developed a successful logging business from the river, which ran through the center of their reservation. 1 State of Wisconsin Collections. Most of Wisconsin's major cities were built on rivers. Locate these states onthe map. Wisconsin. And then they had a steam boat which would haul these rafts to the quiet water. An early sportsman adventurer traveling from the rail stops at Eagle River to Manitowish by canoe describes the Rest Lake camp in 1890: The dam was 3 miles below and we were trying to reach it before dark. contract and responsible for the logging site complies with the Wisconsin Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Training Standard as adopted by the Wisconsin SFI Implementation Committee (SIC). (29) Recent research strongly suggests that Dan Devine and his Ojibwa spouse Kate settled on Clear Lake at least 5 years earlier, making the Devine family our communities first logging era settlers. Large corporations began investing in the virgin forests of the Pacific Northwest in the 20th century. Koller Library. Manitowish Waters Historical Society. Later, two other phase 1 river drive dams were constructed upstream of the Rest Lake Dam on the Manitowish River: one at the outlet of Boulder Lake on Highway K and another creating a flowage below Fish Trap Lake. Big logging activity ceased between 1911 (when the last Yawkey-Bissell activity ceased; that firm's last local camp was near Mud Lake, now Fawn) and1914 (when the last logs had been shipped from the hoist at Star Lake). Be sure to look at the charming, well-done murals throughout the building. At Baers Mill Point Resort the trees remain largely uncut, with the mill pond and sawmill site featured as prized elements of the property. With the arrival of railroads to the Manitowish area in 1889 the settlement of this pocket of the Northwoods frontier mirrored the American West. Immediately where the outlet of the Trout River enters Alder Lake is in full view as I write from my home. Published by Friends of the Library, Boulder Junction WI, 1996. Retrieved 2-4-2018. Loggers attempted dry logs to help them float longer, but the possibility of insect and grub infestations motived loggers to deliberately move their timber the nearest rail hoist. Retrieved 1-26-2018. Northern country whiskey has a couple of fights in every drink, and it's chief characteristic began to show in our newly discovered friend.(48). p. 29. 20 Gates, Paul Wallace. Pages 74-75. This job was referred to as the Lac Du Flambeau log job. Operations ended in late 1926. Dr. & Mrs E.A. The legacy of lumber companies helping tribal interests are mixed at best. The soft pine forests of northern and central Wisconsin provided a seemingly endless supply of raw material to urban markets. to the mill pond were efficiently moved by log hoist to the saw mill. With different lumber companies using the same rail transport, identifying logs required stamp hammers like the hammers used on river drive logging. The Mission is "the public education of Wisconsin forest history, multiple-use sustained yield forest management, and people and their environment." Camp 5 Museum Foundation is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit operating the Wisconsin Forestry Museum and Laona and Northern Railroad. John Weeks Lumber Company, Stevens Point. 50 https://mwhistory.org/2016/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/1895-foreststream-logging-trapping-star-lake.pdf. The logs then moved through the mill on a second track, as first a circular head saw and then smaller chainsaw cut the logs into planks. Boulder Junction The Early Years: 1880 to 1950. Our Dad then worked at our local Sawmill for about 30 years. 1 http://dnr.wi.gov/wnrmag/html/stories/2004/feb04/forest.htm. This specialized spur was sometimes referred to as the BIA line because it was federally subsidized, officially constructed to help the Ojibwa community in Lac Du Flambeau. 1943. P. 12. "An pfwhat is thim t'ings ye'er carryin over yur shouhlder?, (meaning the skis.). 73 http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/USAIN/RSF/RSF191112/reference/wi.rsf191112.i0012.pdf. Retrieved 2-7-2018. Directions/Map; Member Activities. (81) With the large tracts of hardwoods gone, phase 3 loggers harvested remaining timber, second growth, and began to target poplar as pulpwood for paper mills. One of the greatest logging and lumber traditions in the Manitowish Waters area was the Loveless families Phase 3 logging enterprise on Alder Lake. McMillan Lumber Company, McMillan. Needless to say a hard work life in the woods back then. In the transition from phase 2 logging to phase 3 logging Wisconsin government ramped-up their efforts to rein-in timber trespass and regulate logging practices. Michael J. Dunn, III. download ExpertGPS mapping software, which will allow you to print maps of any camp in Wisconsin, view camps on USGS topo maps and aerial photos, and send the camps as waypoints or POIs directly to your GPS receiver. 1902. Pages 102-105. Erosion from dam operations during the logging eraFlancher Collections Manitowish Waters Historical Society, Back at the dam here, when each drive was over, two and a half billion gallons of water had been penned up and then released; the lakes were down to their original pre-1887 levels; and raw, ugly scarred new margin of erosion and stumps marred fifty some miles of the shoreline.(46). Image # 98378. Detailed hunter hiking trail maps are under the Hunter Hiking Trails header below. Arguably, the most significant Manitowish Waters phase 2 logging route was the Chicago Northwestern line access to a government logging spur line for the Flambeau Lumber Company, beginning just south of the Powell depot to Little Star Lake by 1900. CL&B's headquarters camp is today the present village of Boulder Jct. Finally, In 1909 the Milwaukee Road entered into an agreement with the A.H. Stange Lumber company The Milwaukee Road would provide rails (7 miles initially were leased to Stange) and cars to the company. Fredric Jackson Turner. Retrieved 2-15-2018. The Significance of the Frontier in American History. To keep ahead of the cold, the menate fast, standing up, or seated on a windfall. In the lumbering regions the weapon is the fist and the hobnail. Program Overview & Guide - Upham Woods Outdoor Learning Center Stoddard Lumber Company, Stevens Point. Time Capsule: Logging Camp in Northern Wisconsin - Chippewa Herald Thus, keeping loggers tethered to the logging company and making economic mobility difficult. Looking back at the logging years. Wisconsin's furniture, paper and leather industries required more lumber as they grew. Retrieved 2-3-18. Here's a log jam in Eau Claire in the 1930s. This other picture is the Boulder Lake Dam. Wisconsin railroad timeline: 19th century. In 1884, Peter Vance claimed to settle on Vance (Dam) Lake after traveling by canoe from Menomonee WI or Eau Claire WI as a timber cruiser. Free shipping for many products! Especially in hard times, the community benefited from local timber processed at the Loveless Mill. The unique culture and traditions of river drive logging camps, as well as the dangerous log drive journey to Chippewa Falls or Eau Claire are chronicled well by local historians Paul Brenner and Michael Dunn. State Board of Forestry Report of the state forester of Wisconsin for 1909 and 1910. Molasses was added and later dried fruit especially prunes. Hotel in Marinette, WI | Quality Inn Official Site | Quality Inn & Suites (26) Interestingly, after extensively researching and documenting a 25 foot head of water at the original dam site located a few meters downstream of the outlet of Vance lake, in 1880 the U.S. Congress changed the height of the dam to 15 feet. Towns in the Valley: Stratford (Big Eau Pleine), originally Webertown, est. Retrieved 2-7-2018. Begin or dive deeper into researching your family tree, Learn about the spaces, places, & unique story of your community, The largest North American Heritage collection after the Library of Congress. Looking back at the logging years. Wisconsin lumber was used to construct buildings and houses for the Midwest's growing cities. Chetek is a city in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University. The logging town is low, sodden, degraded, and does not rise to the dignity of wickedness. In years past, this is the time when activity would once again start in the logging camps of Northern Wisconsin. oldpaperart.blogspot.com, Historic axe blaze from either a timber cruiser or trapper near North Lakeland Discovery Center trailsManitowish Waters Historical Society Collection, The most successful and powerful land agent in the Chippewa Valley was Henry C Putnam. Madison, Wisconsin 53715-1255, View RecollectionWisconsins profile on Facebook, View UCmHTkq5FI2puKBqT_TDQ3Dgs profile on YouTube, The Toolkit Blog: Digital Projects Support, The Iconography of the Chippewa Valley Lumberjack 1869 to 1913, Early Statehood, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, Industrialization, Agriculture, Urbanization, and Labor, The Wisconsin Idea, the Progressive Era, and World War I, http://wisconsinhistoricalmarkers.blogspot.com/2013/03/wabeno-logging-museum.html, Things to do in the Wisconsin Northwoods-Watch a Lumberjack - Linda Aksomitis, http://smulansblog.blogspot.se/2006/09/det-kom-ett-brev.html. 17 Gates, Paul Wallace. Koller Library. They had little success. In 1874 the Wisconsin Central (Soo Line) from Ashland, WI to just south of Fifield, WI marked the first regional railroad that impacted the Manitowish Waters area. Ronald Satz. Ordinarily the independent timber cruiser also had some other occupation, such as running a logging crew, scaling timber, or guiding prospective settlers and sportsman. Retrieved 2-15-2018. Malcolm Rosholt. The cases above were not universal, and some camps were fair, clean, more or less moral and shared profits with workers. The mark was registered on October 2, 1902. Griffiths defining work mirrored national efforts of environmental leaders like Gifford Pinchot, and utilized forestry management models from Europe and New York State. 38 https://mwhistory.org/2016/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1914-State-of-Wisconsin-Railroad-Com-Rest-Lake-Dam.pdf. For more information, call (715) 674-3414. Michael J. Dunn, III. In 1902, Ironwood resident, James Albright recorded that Fox Island was eroding from the dam raising water more than 12 feet for logging operations. 62 http://sassmaster.tripod.com/vilas.html. 45 http://mwlibrary.blogspot.com/search/label/logging, Paul Brenner, interview continued. 4 http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/transactions/WT199101/reference/wi.wt199101.i0011.pdf. Pioneers seeking ownership of their already established homesteads risked being identified as squatters on land already acquired by members of the land cartel. For several weeks early each summer pine logs were sent through the spillways in great bunches and washed downstream with huge gulps of penned up lake water. For all of his maneuvering, Putnam took a percent of the land deals to pay his timber cruisers, protect lands from timber stealers and be compensated for his special expertise. (71). Both the famed Eau Claire land agent Henry Putnam and University benefactor Ezra Cornell had battled timber stealers with mixed results since the 1860s, due largely to a lack of honest governmental engagement. Wisconsin's other great lumbering region consisted of the watersheds of the Black and Chippewa Rivers in the northwest. During phase 1 river drive logging Manitowish Waters was regionally dominant by 1888, with the creation of the Rest Lake dam serving mostly the interest of companies controlled by the Weyerhaeuser family. Retrieved 1-26-2018. Retrieved 2-3-18. Sundays were also the best days for photographers to visit, and many of the surviving photographs from lumber camps were most likely taken on Sundays, according to Kathryn W. Kennedy in her paper The Iconography of the Chippewa Valley Lumberjack 1869 to 1913(1983). (83) What Loveless called his Virgin Forest Park, will remain mostly uncut, creating a towering forest similar to those he witnessed in 1891. These other species do not float as well as the white pine, so there was always a sense of urgency in rafting them, and rafting sometimes went on day and night. Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Co. Appellant, versus Wisconsin Railroad Commission, Respondent. Paul Brenner describes the Vilas and Turtle Lake Companies using railroad cars to create mobile camps on both main and spur rail lines. Since 1934 the Wisconsin Logging Museum has invited visitors to step back in time to experience an age when Wisconsin Pine was filling out rivers and supplying a growing nation. 79 https://mwhistory.org/2016/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/1921-22-Biennial-Report-State-Conserv-Com-Rest-Lake-Ranger-Station.pdf. All Rights Reserved. (80) In Manitowish Waters, fire prevention and suppression has always been a community effort. Dad also built a dam across the river outlet of Alder Lake. Earlier logging operations had cut the most usable and profitable timber. Wisconsin logging camp Stock Photos and Images - Alamy Lisas uncle Cal LaPorte claimed that the LaPorte family led the last river drive of white pines in the early 1900s. Koller Library. I think there is no population in America of so low a grade as the riff-raff of the lumbering regions. The lumber industry had previously relied on pine trees and spared hardwoods. Retrieved 2-5-18. Eau Claire Marathon Road Closures on Sunday, April 30, 2023: Madison Street Bridge (6am-9:30am) Michael J. Dunn, III. "I jist sit down for wance in a woy, "said this specimen, who proved to be an Irishman. Box 100 From the 1850s until the first documented Rest Lake dam construction in 1888 timber cruisers were moving through the region on a regular basis to give feedback to land agents who served: speculators, universities, railroads, and logging companies. (73) After the fire their railroad locomotive was rated in poor condition and timber sales to Wausau were contested and brought before the Wisconsin Railroad Commission in 1912. In Manitowish Waters, residents had the unique opportunity to use pike poles to reach up to 20 feet in lakes to retrieve logs that sunk during earlier steamboat rafting operations. Grand Avenue to Barstow Street. Robert Connor Lumber Company, Auburndale. Koller Library. Flancher and the Peggy Line by Michael Dunn. Retrieved 1-26-2018. Even more notable, the alleged trespassing and timber stealing occurred while the United States was shifting human resources to fight the Civil War, limiting enforcement of timber trespass laws. 5) Constant dangers from logging and river drives may have taken a psychological toll, leading some loggers to adopt a devil-may-care approach to life. View a 1937 guide to CCC camps in Wisconsin and a 1939 recruitment poster elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org. Even the style of fighting (and where cheap whiskey abounds fighting must ensue) is of poor type in the pinewoods. Retrieved 2-7-2018, 76 http://content.mpl.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mcml/id/3757/rec/1. Captain Charles Allen led these surveyors, but his assistant Mr. J. H. Dager lead the survey for the Rest Lake dam. Manitowish Waters Historical Society. This website is a great search place to get all of your own history stuff or even things you will need to know about famous people, Looking for information of a smaller logging camp north of Washburn, Wisconsin. Notably, the scale of logging operations were smaller during phase 3, with tractors, trucks and bull dozers replacing railroads for log transport from the woods. Cut-over land in northern Wisconsin, ca. Coffee and tea and sugar finally found their way as the competition between camps grew stronger. Investigations by the camp doctor revealed the disease bearing vector for the outbreak was a communal wash cloth for washing loggers hands and face. CCC Camps Wisconsin. This revealing narrative then degrades into a nasty exchange of swearing (----), which illustrates the deep nativist and ethnic prejudice which was common at the turn of the 20th century. 78 https://mwhistory.org/2016/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/1911-12-Report-to-State-Forester-Rest-L-Ranger-Station.pdf. The population of the United States was growing rapidly between the 1870's and 1900's and there was a demand for lumber to help expand settlers west and to build more cities and towns. Map and Download GPS Waypoints for 242 Camps in Wisconsin - ExpertGPS As Wisconsin was buying old timber lands and consolidating government lands to create a new Wisconsin Forest Reserve (later the Northern Highland Forest) timber plunders continued to target government lands. Then, Postcard - Cook Shanty, Wisconsin Logging Camp - eBay (constructed in 1894) The C&NW had a job based in Lac Du Flambeau that hauled logs south from the O'Day and Daley operations at Mercer to the Flambeau mill. Transporting lumber by train allowed loggers to work year-round and to cut lumber that was once impossible to float down rivers. Retrieved 1-26-2018. Railroads transformed Wisconsin's lumber industry at the turn of the 20th century. Starting in 1888, white pines would be driven and/or rafted by paddlewheel steam boats from upstream of Alder Lake to the Rest Lake dam, attempting to fulfill the insatiable demand of Weyerhaeusers phase 1 river drive logging operations in Chippewa Falls. Map of Taylor County drawn to accompany an article by Ray Bundick, 'The 37 http://mwlibrary.blogspot.com/search/label/logging. William Caxton Ltd: Sister Bay WI. Therewas no hour off for lunch, but twenty minutes atthe most with scarcely time for a smoke. Ongoing timber cruiser reports empowered land agents to target the best lands for purchase leaving the marginal and waste lands for homesteaders and the government. In Manitowish Waters, the 1862 original survey citations of logs soon going to market were likely easily identified by either fresh stumpage or logs piled on the shore. Enjoy a nice lunch at the Choo-Choo hut. CCC Camps Wisconsin - ccclegacy While, Malcolm Rosholts publication, Lumbermen on the Chippewa, is fantastically illustrated, supported by strong research, and is arguably the most comprehensive publication on Wisconsin northwoods logging, found at: http://content.mpl.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mcml/id/3757/rec/1. Forest and Stream. Buswell burned in 1910, but the line operated with a new depot at the junction of HWY K and West Papoose Lake road. The camp was built using the classic Dingle design from the logging traditions of Maine. This map was . Wisconsin Logging Museum- Home However, many Wisconsin . 1943. During Phase 2 railroad logging Manitowish Waters transition to a secondary logging area, and was only accessed by tertiary rail routes and logging spurs. Sign up for the Wisconsin Historical Society Newsletter, 1996-2023 Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Wisconsin | Wisconsin Historical Society. In 1862, both the Homestead Act and Morrill Land Grant Act for agricultural colleges were passed opening more preferred access to government lands. According to Rosholt in The Wisconsin Logging Book: There was no drinking in camp, not for moral reasons, but because some men never knew when to quit, and when drunk, became violent or abusive.
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