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The office was built in 1889 by the North Wisconsin Lumber Company, a prominent logging company in Wisconsin's Namekagon region which was founded by A.J. Hayward and R.L. McCormick. The building's design includes cast iron columns in its storefront, tall windows with arched lintels , and brick corbels and dentils .
About 3 mi. NNW of Augusta off WI 27: Augusta: The gristmill on Bridge Creek was built in 1864, when wheat was the cash crop in this part of Wisconsin. [30] 19: Drummond Business Block: Drummond Business Block: October 10, 2007 : 409-417 Galloway St.
A trade association, the Reclaimed Wood Council, was formed in May 2003 but dissolved in January 2008 due to a lack of participation among the larger reclaimed wood distributors. [5] Reclaimed lumber is sold under a number of names, such as antique lumber, distressed lumber, recovered lumber, upcycled lumber, and others.
The large lumber company brought the SS and Omaha railroads to northern Wisconsin. They also created many logging camps that turned into small towns. Birchwood is located where it is due to the Birch Lake lumber camp, and the crossing of the Soo and the Omaha railroads. [7] Birchwood WI was platted in 1901.
The Holt and Balcom Logging Camp No. 1 in Lakewood, Wisconsin was built around 1880 in what was then timber along McCaslin Brook. It is probably the oldest lumber camp in Wisconsin still standing in its original location, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [2]
Bethel was established in 1899 as a Seventh-day Adventist education and religious community. The land had belonged to the Lyman Lumber Company. Lyman offered 200 acres (0.81 km 2) to the S.D.A.'s Wisconsin conference if they would agree to buy an additional 800 acres of Lyman land.
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The Couderay Lumber Company shipped its logs by rail to sawmills at Couderay and Rice Lake. The logging industry was short-lived in the Ojibwa area, the major operation being shifted to Radisson and Winter. Mr. Ben Faast of Eau Claire organized the Wisconsin Colonization Company and purchased large tracts of cut-over land south of Ojibwa.