Iron County Heritage Area
Main streets developed at the cross roads of resources, transportation, and people. The town of Manitowish grew up on timber and the railroad.By the turn of the century, the "inexhaustible" stands of white pine had been cut from northern Wisconsin and floated to sawmills down waterways like the Manitowish River.
Lumberman William Henry Roddis was one of the first to recognize the value of the area's untouched virgin stands of hardwood timber. But hardwood timber, unlike pine, did not float. It could not be "driven" downriver to mills.
Roddis pioneered the use of railroads to transport logs rather than rivers. By 1903, his "Roddis Line" logging railroad was a growing network of mainline track and spur routes that connected logging camps deep in the forest to lumber mills.
Roddis established a logging mill here that operated through the mid-1930's and established Manitowish as a shipping point for timber.
| HM Number | HMUMH |
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| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Saturday, October 11th, 2014 at 1:21am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 15T E 730755 N 5113095 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 46.13238333, -90.01271667 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 46° 7.943', W 90° 0.763' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 46° 7' 56.58" N, 90° 0' 45.78" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 715 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 1647-1715 Manitowish Rd, Mercer WI 54547, US |
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