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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]
The Camp Five Museum is a living history museum located in Laona, Wisconsin, that interprets the forest industry and transportation history of Wisconsin. It includes part or all of the Camp Five Farmstead, also known as Camp Five Logging Camp, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1] The museum was established ...
Mess hall at a logging camp. Lumberjacks could work upwards of twelve hours a day, and lumbering was such physically demanding work that each man could eat between 6,000 to 9,000 calories a day. [6] [7] In one estimation, the average logger consumed 5 pounds (2.3 kg) of food each day. [7]
The Trout Point Logging Camp was in operation from the late 19th century to the 20th century. Located on Stockton Island near Bayfield, Wisconsin , it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 [ 1 ] and the State Register of Historic Places early the following year.
The Round Lake Logging Dam is a historic dam on the south fork of the Flambeau River eighteen miles east of Fifield, Wisconsin, United States, where the river flows out of Round Lake. [1] This earth and timber dam was originally built around 1880 to help lumber companies drive logs down the Flambeau River to sawmills around Eau Claire and ...
When Sergio González visited the Milwaukee County Historical Society for the first time 12 years ago, he expected to spend hours tracing his family's history through boxes and boxes of Wisconsin ...
Frank Vaisvilas is a former Report for America corps member who covers Native American issues in Wisconsin based at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Contact him at fvaisvilas@gannett.com or 815-260 ...
The 1886 log jam on the St Croix River near Taylors Falls, Minnesota. On June 13, 1886, a log jam developed in the St. Croix River, close to Taylors Falls, Minnesota, and St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. The river was used to transport large quantities of logs from the forests upstream to the sawmills, and log jams disrupted this business.