According to Frank Proski’s obituary before they bought the resort in 1948 it was name Phill Halls Resort. Frank and Helen Proski ran the resort

George Pazik – Editor and Publisher Fishing Facts Magazine As editor and publisher, George Pazik helped grow Fishing Facts Magazine into a national voice in sport

1946-2023 Over Labor Day weekend in 1979, while camping on the Chippewa Flowage Randy found his dream business and purchased Jenks Bait and Tackle in

Get your 100th Anniversary Commemorative Items at Participating Member Businesses The LCFRA will be donating all proceeds from the sale of these items towards the

If you can remember years back, we told you a short little story about McCloud’s Dam. If you’ve ever driven your boat into Musky Bay,

By John Dettloff – IndianTrailResort.com Napoleon Paul Lessard was born near the St. Lawrence River on July 12, 1863 in Sainte-Ursule-Maskinonge, Quebec, Canada, to Jean

John Dettloff – IndianTrailResort.com Thomas Manwaring was born in England in 1849 and immigrating to the United States around 1872. After purchasing the West Bend

By John Dettloff – IndianTrailResort.com One of the first available places of lodging to be built within the basin of what would eventually become the

John Dettloff – IndianTrailResort.com On June 11, 1919, Ellsworth and Pollie Derro were issued a land patent as a result of proving up on their

Long Time Member D & B Bait and Tackle has closed D & B Bait and Tackle, Hayward WI West County Road B(at Junction County

A map from the 1950’s Hover over map to enlarge Open Map Image in new window 1970 Lake Map The Landing Arrow Resort Baumgarten’s Resort

Hover over map to enlarge 1970’s RESORTS 1. Herman’s Landing (The landing resort LCO)2. Kavanagh Resort (Sisko’s Pine Point Resort)3. Arrow Resort (Old Arrow Resort)4.

At some point there was a fish hatchery located at the Winter Dam.   The exterior photo below calls it the “Chippewa Flowage Hatchery”. The interior

John Dettloff – IndianTrailResort.com Ever since the first maps of the Chippewa Flowage began listing place names, Bunker Lake and Bunker Bay have long been

By Tatum Treland-Schlapper – Treeland Resorts How Cletcher’s Bar got its name : Tatum Treland-Schlapper Today we’d like to share the story of how Cletcher’s

The two little frame school houses were erected on the same spot, Sec. 8-40-7, and school was maintained for the benefit of the family of

By Tatum Treland-Schlapper – Treeland Resorts The story of how Blackbird Point came to be is short, sweet and comical. As legend has it, an

On July 5, 1901, the school board let a contract for $627.00 to Blair & Jorgenson to build a school house (a duplicate of the

Sawyer County Gazette Oct. 5, 2022“Yesteryears” column Oct. 19, 1972Max Schenk, age 69, former owner and operator of East Fork Resort of Winter, died unexpectedly

By Tatum Treland-Schlapper – Treeland Resorts At the turn of the century, people loved to travel to Northern Wisconsin. They hunted and fished the East

John Dettloff – IndianTrailResort.com Pictured is Billy DeBrot’s first of three resorts that he owned and operated… this one, more than a century ago. Likely

By John Dettloff – IndianTrailResort.com Circa 1886, this is a photograph of the fine home of Thad and Mary (Bert) “Gogi” Thayer, located in the

The (Sam) Johnson Stopping Place was located in what is now Trail’s End Camp, north of Bruce. The site is located near the mouth of

Here is a short story about McCloud’s Dam (we are not sure on the spelling of this as it is not marked on any maps

Baumgarten’s “Bar” and Baumgarten’s Resort Baumgarten’s Bar got its name from Ernst Guenther William “Bill” Baumgarten and the resort he built. The road was built

Joe Russell came to the U. S. from Canada and settled in Maine in 1857. Moved to Michigan in 1863. Settled at Grand Rapids, Wis.

There used to be a lot more driftwood on the Chippewa Flowage. In the 1970’s the back bays were still filled with standing tree trunks

Mr. Cy Pinkham and later Mr. 0. W. Blackburn operated the Grand Rapids House Stopping Place. This stopping place was located on the Chippewa Tote

On the north side of River Road where Fiorelli road intersects was a School house named Riverview School. Mae Baumgarten (Baumgarten’s Resort) was a/the teacher

Wilson Shannon Ackley (W.S.) the Son-in-law of James Bishop, who was one of the earliest Settlers of what is now Sawyer county, was born in

The Drake School was maintained for the benefit of the family of Fred C. Drake. The log school house was erected in 1897 on the

200 yards east of the road down the access road. Look for timbers near the spillway. These supported a platform where men stood, directing logs

The Blue Heron was located at the corner of Hwy B and Hwy CC where the Rusty Hook Saloon and Smokehouse is. The Blue Heron

Meda / Scott Lake Sawyer County Record Jan. 3, 1929 John Scott, a veteran of the Civil War, passed away last Saturday and was buried

Bill Price (M.C) of Black River Falls came in and built a dam on the Brunet in the early seventies. This is still known as

R.F. Housel (Bud) and his wife Chinky had a Tavern with dining on Barker Lake Road. There was a gas pump out front. It was

Elijah Swift, a dealer in pine lands, logs, and lumber built a dam in T-38 N -R 8W Section 10 of Sawyer County where he

Joseph Sarrazin “Buckwheat” Known most of his life as “Joe Buckwheat”, he was born Joseph Sarrazin on October 30, 1860 to Louis Sarrazin and Marie-Christian

Burpee’s Stopping Place was located in “Gates County”, Island Lake WI. Rusk County, Wisconsin, was known as Gates County from 1901 to 1905. This was

The oldest building still standing in Sawyer County Wisconsin Clark, W.N. and M.H. Clark. “A Short History of Southern Sawyer County.” Wisconsin Colonization Company, 1920.

The Bishop School was named after James Bishop the earliest settler in this neighborhood who came from Minneapolis during the spring of 1872. He had

The building was erected.on the N. E. corner Sec. 30-39-5 during the summer of 1899. Only one term of school has been held in the

Charles Belille The first white settler in the Upper Chippewa Valley was a French Canadian called Charles Belille. He came to Northern Wisconsin as a

The Hayward Indian School opened September 1, 1901 “under very unfavorable circumstances. Clothing, subsistence, and equipment for the plant had not reached the school, and

The Arpin Dam was most likely build by the John Arpin Lumber Co. Share this Story Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Other Historical Places

The original dam, called the Goodrich Dam, was built by Jim Goodrich in 1878. It was used to raise the level of the Moose River

Bruno Vinette’s logging camp on the Chippewa in Birch Creek. The logger’s life was arduous and dangerous. Nonetheless, it attracted men in search of work.

The Chippewa Flowage Area Property Owners Association (CFAPOA) and Couderay Waters Regional Land Trust (CWRLT) are pleased to present the Chippewa Islands Project. We did

Bruno Vinette Stopping Place: Bruno Vinette was born Oct. 7, 1836 in Ste-Martine, County Chateauguay, Québec, but migrated to Kankakee, Ill., in 1853 to live

Oral history of the Hayward Wisconsin area after the logging boom.  Audio recorded from WHA radio in the 1970’s. Most photos from the J.E. McGilligan

D. A. Miles operated an early logging camp at the big bend of the Chippewa River. The camp consisted of barns that could accommodate 200

Organized by Ben Faast around 1918, the Wisconsin Colonization Company sought to establish a prosperous city of farmers on land formerly used for logging. Faast