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1. Aerial postcards of Little Star, Manitowish and Spider Lakes ca 1960s

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2. Balaty's Northwood Lodge 1939-1946 - Located on Little Star Lake, north of Little Bohemia. Vincent Balaty purchased the resort in January 1939 from Roy Jorgensen.

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3. Balaty's Northwood Lodge on Little Star Lake. 1939-1946 - Balaty's Northwood Lodge postcard image from David Bohnett postcard collection. The boat landing.

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4. Boat launches picking up guests heading to Deer Park Lodge. ca 1910s-1920s - This landing is on Little Star Lake, near the intersection of Powell and Alder Lake Roads.

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5. BO BO JI JO TO rental property on Little Star Lake. 1976-1989 - Bunn's Northwood's Lodge was divided and sold to three different owners in 1976. Bob and Barb Shroeder, who had a summer residence down the shore, purchased two of the resort's year round homes and two cabins for rental properties.

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6. Brief published history of the Famous Little Bohemia Lodge and the FBI shoot out with the Dillinger gang. 1915-1934 - The original Little Bohemia was established in 1915 in Chicago. It began operations in Manitowish Waters in 1927. The Dillinger shoot out took place in April 1934.

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7. Bunn's Northwoods Lodge on Little Star Lake. 1952-1976 - Walter & Beatrice Bunn purchased the resort from the Sindberg's. Walter's obituary is included in this record.

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8. CCC Camp Mercer enrollees visit Little Bohemia 1935 - Photos taken by Camp Mercer enrollee Elmer Hinke.

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9. 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

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10. Deer Park Lodge postcards ca 1917-1920s - Charles & Catherine Doriot owned the resort from 1917-1934. These are some of the earlier images. David Bohnett postcard collection.

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11. Deer Trail Cabins on Little Star Lake. 1976-1997 - Bunn's Northwood's Lodge was divided and sold to three different sections in 1976. One of the new owners was their daughter, Helen Townsend. She and her husband Bob kept the two cabins closest to Little Bohemia Lodge as well as 200' of frontage. They continued to rent the cabins under the name Deer Trail Cabins. In 1997 they sold the cabins and lake frontage to Jeff and Michelle Muellner for a private residence.

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12. Deer Trail Cottages on Little Star Lake ca 1930s-1946 - Ms. Maude Johnson started this resort, building four cabins, in the early 1930s. By 1949 she sold a couple of the cabins to Tom Crawford who rented them under the name Little Star Resort. The other cabins were sold to Oscar Nehring by 1945 and continued to be operated as Deer Trail Cottages.By 1953 these cabins were sold and were being rented under the name Star Beach Cottages. The 1956 Chamber business map lists Nerhing's Service Garage as still being located here.

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13. Earliest map of rail line from Powell depot to Little Star and Manitowish Lakes. 1900 - This is a segment of the map titled "Lakes Tributary to G.W. Buck and Son Resorts" hand drawn by Fayette (Fay) Buck in 1900. This map illustrates the earliest rail line from the town of Powell, by today's Highway 47, to Little Star and Manitowish Lakes where logs were loaded onto rail cars and visitors to the area were dropped off to get launches to area resorts. This map dates the existence of the railroad spur at 1900. The map also shows the Manitowish Depot, phone lines and resorts Source: Wisconsin Historical Society URL: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM97107 Digital ID: 97107 Image ID: GX9028 V69 1900 B 1903Page #:1

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14. Early photos of Blanchard family on Little Star Lake. ca 1900s-1920s - Current location is 5636 Star Lake Road

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15. Felix the Muskie by Michael Dunn 1936-1944 - A Michael Dunn story about a "trained" muskie that would regularly appear at Jens and Lenore Larson's bait shop on Little Star Lake, much to the delight of their customers.

    2017

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16. Flambeau Lumber Company office and bunk house (right) located in Pancake Hollow on Little Star Lake. 1900-1916 - The Chicago Northwestern rail line extended access from a government logging spur line for the Flambeau Lumber Co just south of the Powell depot to Little Star Lake by 1900. The Company operated a large boom and loading area on the southwestern bay of the lake. Current address is 13602 Star Point Lane.

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17. Flamm's Cottage on Little Star Lake. 1954- ca 1965 - Owned by O.G. Flamm. The 1956 Chamber map places this rental in the same location as Little Star Resort, Star Beach Cottages and Nehring's Garage.

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18. General history of Manitowish Waters published in the Vilas County News Review Centennial Edition 2/19/1986. 1890-1937 - 1911-1930s: Logging and local sawmills 1890s-1911: First area resorts 1927: Established Town of Spider Lake 1920s-1930s: Town Hall, School, Cemetery, Fish Hatchery 1934: Dillinger gang at Little Bohemia 1937: Became Town of Manitowish Waters

    2/19/1986

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19. Hausman's Northwoods Lodge on Little Star Lake. 1990-1995 - In 1978 Bunn's Northwood's Lodge was divided and sold to three different owners. In 1990 Mike and Nancy (Johns) Hausman purchased two of the properties and revived the earlier resort name of Northwoods Lodge.

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20. Jorgensen's Northwood Lodge 1931-1939 - Located on Little Star Lake, north of Little Bohemia. Jorgensen sold the resort to Vincent Balaty in January 1939.

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