Related Records

1. A Weekend to Remember... 4/20-4/22/1934 - A photographic booklet about the people and places involved in the Dillinger shoot out with and escape from the FBI in Spider Lake, WI (later named Manitowish Waters).

   2018

   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. Charles "Bud" Smith Jr. 1991 interview about the Smith family's long history in Manitowish Waters. 1915-1991 - The original Smith property was on Manitowish and Little Star Lakes. They continue to own Olivida on the northwest shore of Manitowish Lake.

   10/23/1991

   Record Type: Archive

   
4. Mitchell's Resort located in "Sleepy Bay" on Rest Lake. ca 1914-1943 - Caption reads "Back view at Mitchell's Resort" Mitchell's Resort was located on the south shore of Rest Lake just beyond the mouth of the channel/river entering the lake. Mitchell's operated the resort from approx. 1912-1943.

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. Mitchell's Rest Lake Resort. 1911-1943 - Included in the record are news clippings of a resort ad, farm land for sale and obituraries for Ed and Anna Mitchell. They sold the resort to Jim and Bernice Bart in 1943.

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. News clippings referencing Peter Vance's Resort, aka Rest Lake Resort. 1896-1903 - Per Rosetta Plunkett Wysocki's 1973 interview with historian Michael Dunn, Vances' "resort" was located on the south shore of Rest Lake, what would later become Joe Ilg's Resort. It was more of a lodge or hotel than a resort. In 1903, Vance leased the resort to A.R. Andrews, however it burned down that year. Note: The Mitchell's opened a resort on the southwest corner of Rest Lake in 1912, also named Rest Lake Resort.

   Record Type: Archive

   
7. Newspaper article noting that the Manitowish and Manitowish waters areas, known for summer resorts, are seeing more farms being established. 1918 - The article lists current resorts, retail establishments and farms. Though the number of farms is increasing, there is a hope that the Wisconsin parks region will open more farm land.

   8/10/1918

   Record Type: Archive

   
8. Two newspaper clippings detailing the role Mr. & Mrs. Ed Mitchell, Mitchell's Resort, Rest Lake, had with the Dillinger gang and their escape from the FBI on 4/22/1934. - They were awaken during the night of April 22nd by John Dillinger, Homer Van Meter and John Hamilton and instructed to find them a get away car.

   4/25/1934

   Record Type: Archive