Pinery Road - The Legend

Iron County Heritage Area

"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 ...

Roddis Line – Nelson Camp 1 (1925-1930)

Iron County Heritage Area

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 ...

Roddis Line – Life in Camp

Iron County Heritage Area

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 ...

Roddis Line – Early Logging

Iron County Heritage Area

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 ...

Roddis Line - Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company

Iron County Heritage Area

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 ...

Roddis Line – Turtle-Flambeau Dam

Iron County Heritage Area

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 ...

Flambeau Trail – Turtle Flambeau Flowage Dam

Iron County Heritage Area

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 ...

Memorial Union Tower

In grateful memory

of these

Heroic Sons of Missouri

who in the Great War

- 1917 - 1918 -

paid the full measure

of devotion

[Roll of Honored Dead]

Tipping of the Hats

When the Memorial Union Tower was completed in 1926, the names of MU's honored 117 men ...

The Mammoth Consolidated Gold Mine

Mammoth’s famous gold mining boom began in 1877 and ended abruptly in 1881 when the Mammoth Mining Company’s property was sold at a sheriff’s sale. Miners have contributed to prospect and mine Red Mountain on a small scale to this ...

Snowfield Monument

"Franciscan Fathers"

October 13, 1776: "We set out southward from the small river and campsite of Nuestra Senora del Pilar ("Our Lady of the Pillar" – Kolob Canyon of Zion Canyon National Park)…" and…"We traveled a league and a half to ...