Related Records

1. Brochure from "Meet the Spirits" cemetery walk event. 8/28/024 - A living history event sponsored by the Manitowish Waters Historical Society at Pine Lawn Cemetery. Biographies of seven local pioneers were researched and portrayed by family or community members. Eighty five people attended the event. The brochure has a brief history of the Town and Pine Lawn Cemetery in addition to a biographical summary of each pioneer.

   8/28/2024

   Record Type: Archive

   
2. Carl Christensen oral history interview transcribed. 1930-1993 - Carl Christensen narrative of his personal history in Manitowish Waters. Narrative transcribed from an oral history interview conducted in 1993. Available at Koller Library.

   Record Type: Archive

   
3. Early pioneer Joe LaVigne- marriage to Minnie Peterson, business cards and obituary. 1902-1940 - Joe LaVigne, guide, logger, farmer and caretaker (for A. Himes, Chicago) also rented cabins.

   Record Type: Archive

   
4. "In the Heart of the Wild Woods" is a two part article recounting the author's adventurous hunting trip on Big Lake and the surrounding area with guides Peter Vance and Joe LaVigne. 1899 - Two articles titled "In the Heart of the Wild Woods" and published in the January 1900 edition of Forest and Stream magazine, recounting the author's adventurous deer hunting trip in the Big and Clear Lake area in late October 1899. The guides for the trip were Peter Vance and Joe LaVigne.

   Hunting Collection

   Record Type: Library

   
5. Joe LaVigne: The Oaks cottages on Alder Lake and other historic information about the Joe Lavigne family. ca 1920s-1930s - The record includes a late 1930s resort business listing, a summary of Joe and wife Minnie's time in our area and Joe's obituary (DOD 10/25/1940)

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. Newspaper clipping about William and Louise Peterson, Hurley, spending the summer with their daughter and son-in-law, Minnie and Joe LaVigne, on Alder Lake, fishing and tending the farm. 1926 - Included is a photo of the Peterson family at home in Hurley, WI. References to Grandma & Grandpa would be for William and Louise as the notes were written by Joe and Minnie's daughter.

   6/19/1926

   Record Type: Archive

   
7. Newspaper clippings about Joe LaVigne. 1897 - Entertaining guests at his Rest Lake Camps. 8/21/1897 Visiting his best girl in Lac du Flambeau 9/11/1897

   8/21/1897

   Record Type: Archive