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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFK_roddis-line-lake-of-the-falls_Mercer-WI.html
The felling of Iron County's great stands of timber began in the late 1870's. The white pine was the first to be cut. Down the Turtle River and over Lake of the Falls, buoyant pine logs were floated to sawmills further south.Spring, when the river…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFJ_flambeau-trail-two-ways-to-go_Mercer-WI.html
In days of yesteryear, traveling south on the Flambeau Trail, you arrived at Big Turtle Lake (now Echo Lake) and Little Turtle Lake (now called either Grand Portage Lake or Tank Lake) to what is now Mercer. At Echo Lake you had a choice depending …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFH_flambeau-trail-continental-divide_Mercer-WI.html
You are now standing on the "Continental Divide", a geological demarcation line which splits Northern Wisconsin. North of "The Divide", rivers flow to Lake Superior and finally to the Atlantic Ocean. These waterways are full of rapids and waterfal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUMH_flambeau-trail-manitowish_Mercer-WI.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUBP_flambeau-trail-the-mercer-depot_Mercer-WI.html
The arrival of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad in 1889 was a major factor in the economic development of Mercer's isolated logging settlement. Timber and other natural resources could now be shipped year ?round to markets. Much need…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUBO_flambeau-trail-turtle-portage_Mercer-WI.html
For centuries Native Americans and voyagers using the Flambeau Trail carried their birch bark canoes and cargo across the wide "plain" where you are standing, between Echo Lake (called Big Turtle Lake) and Grand Portage Lake (Little Turtle Lake). …