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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 .
A lounge chair using reclaimed wood. Reclaimed lumber is processed wood retrieved from its original application for purposes of subsequent use. Most reclaimed lumber comes from timbers and decking rescued from old barns, factories and warehouses, although some companies use wood from less traditional structures such as boxcars, coal mines and wine barrels.
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]
The origins of Goodman date to the late 1800s, when it was created as a logging community for the Sawyer-Goodman Lumber Company by the Goodman brothers: James B. Goodman (1841–1907), Robert F. Goodman (1844–1924), and William O. Goodman (1848–1936). The settlement was initially named Dunbar in 1899, and the name was changed to Goodman in ...
The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map. [1] There are 60 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 7, 2025. [2]
Vincent was a lumber man, co-owning one of the first lumber yards in La Crosse. [128] [129] 65: War Eagle Shipwreck (sidewheel steamboat) War Eagle Shipwreck (sidewheel steamboat) March 26, 2020 : Adjacent to Riverside North Park in the Black River
June 22, 2018 (7.5 miles (12.1 km) southeast of Michigan Island in Lake Superior: La Pointe: 187-foot wood-hulled steamship built in 1861 that initially hauled passengers. . Later converted to a scho