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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CE3_apostle-islands-national-lakeshore_Saxon-WI.html
Apostle Islands Scenic View
You are looking out over the Chequamegon Bay region and Apostle Islands which comprises 22 Islands that form an archipelago about 30 miles long and 18 miles wide.
All except one of the Islands (Long Island) are tops …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14EN_pinery-road-the-legend_Park-Falls-WI.html
"An old Indian legend says that Bearskull Lake is sacred. Any white man who had anything to do with the lake or its vicinity will have everlasting ill fortune."
In 1904, a tornado ripped through this area, toppling the last great stands of virg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14EL_roddis-line-nelson-camp-1-1925-1930_Butternut-WI.html
Large, heavy cable remains from the pulley system (called a jammer), used to load the logs from the landing into the rail cars. Stove parts, railroad ties, a wash tub and glass bottles suggest a long term camp with railroad connections.
Artifac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14EK_roddis-line-nelson-camp-1-1925-1930_Butternut-WI.html
This camp was Carl Nelson's headquarters camp. From this camp, he directed the woods operations and sent rail cars of timber south to the main line at Camp 8.
While all of the buildings are gone, artifacts found at the site tell a story of what…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14EJ_roddis-line-life-in-camp_Butternut-WI.html
The railroad pushed into northern Wisconsin in the 1870s, opening the deep forests for harvest. Now hardwoods such as maple, oak, spruce, cedar, balsam, birch and aspen could be cut.
More logs could be shipped by rail than by water so more men …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14EI_roddis-line-early-logging_Butternut-WI.html
America saw the vast forests of the Great lakes as an endless supply of the timber needed to settle the west. Farmers, factories and mills needed wood for fuel and building materials.
Men came to the northern forests to make their fortunes supp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14EH_roddis-line-roddis-lumber-and-veneer-company_Butternut-WI.html
In 1925, the Roddis company contracted with Carl Nelson, a jobber, to run the camps. Between 1925 and 1930, he chose the camp sites, bought supplies and delivered timber to the log landings.
From 1930 until the company abandoned logging in 1938…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14EG_roddis-line-roddis-lumber-and-veneer-company_Butternut-WI.html
William Henry Roddis realized that a fortune could be made in the woods.
In 1903, he purchased a parcel of land to build a mill in Park Falls. Roddis bought 35,000 acres of timber land in Iron and Ashland counties from Wisconsin Central Railroa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14EF_roddis-line-turtle-flambeau-dam_Butternut-WI.html
In 1925, the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company began construction on a dam to create a water reservoir for hydroelectric power, where the Turtle, Manitowish, and Flambeau rivers join.
The Roddis company owned land in the area, which wou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14EE_flambeau-trail-turtle-flambeau-flowage-dam_Butternut-WI.html
The Turtle Flambeau Flowage was born in 1926, when the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company built a dam on the Flambeau River, downstream from its confluence with the Turtle River improving its usefulness for power-generating and papermaking …