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1. Buswell lumber company cottages and town. 1905-1910 - Source Information Provider's name: Ticket to Buswell Facebook page URL: https://www.facebook.com/TicketToBuswell/photos/a.1635977279981942.1073741829.1635294486716888/1912155695697431/?type=3&theater Digital ID: none Image ID: none Date: unknown

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2. Buswell mill, Logging, Railroad, lumber mill 1905-1910 - Source information: Provider's name: Ticket to Buswell Facebook page URL: http://www.facebook.com/TicketToBuswell/photos/a. 1635977279981942.1073741859.1635294486716888/191285348960939/?type=3&theater Date: unknown

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3. Buswell railroad building and laborers. 1905-1910 - Source Information Provider's name: Ticket to Buswell Facebook page URL: https://www.facebook.com/TicketToBuswell/photos/a.1704799109766425.1073741844.1635294486716888/1934491413463859/?type=3&theater Digital ID: none Image ID: none Date: unknown

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4. Buswell Sawmill and Lumber Yard on Papoose Lake. 1905-1910 - Perkins/Devine Collection Buswell burned in 1910

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5. Charles W. Nash acquires timber lands, mill property, resort holdings and an island on Rest Lake. 2/1926 - All the property was known as Winchester Holdings and included Fox Island.

   2/1926

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6. Chippewa Lumber & Boom mill in Chippewa Falls, WI ca 1880s-1890s - Illustrates river drive logging. Chippewa Lumber & Boom Co owned the logging camp by the Rest Lake dam. This company and the Mississippi River Logging Co were owned by Frederick Weyerhaeusar.

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7. Dolly Tirpe Remembers Manitowish Waters- a 1999 two-part Lakeland Times newspaper feature story by Joyce Laabs. 1871-1998 - Dolly recounts the story of her father Robert Loveless, an early settler and entrepreneur in the area. She shares stories and information about her husband and children as well. Included in the record is a page from her journal of recollections detailing much the same information as in the newspaper article.

   1999

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8. End cap of a drive shaft possibly from a sawmill from the logging and lumber days. ca 1900-1925

   Shaft, Drive

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9. "Forest fire burned the life out of Buswell" by Jean Rein 2000 - "8 1/2 years the village was established, prospered, burned and ceased to exist" The article lists Buswell's doctors and teachers and includes a history of the town's Post Office.

   Logging Collection

   Record Type: Library

   
10. Fosterille, WI lumber mill. circa 1910 - Fosterville lumber mill. Image is from "The Wisconsin logging book, 1838-1839 which is an illustrated history and lumbering in Wisconsin. https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/mcml/id/3757/ Creator: Malcolm Rosholt Publisher: Rosholt House 1980 Submitter: McMillan Memorial Library OCLC number: 06829658

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11. Horses pulling sled of logs to the Loveless sawmill on Alder Lake circa 1920 - Two horses pulling sled piled with logs to the Loveless sawmill on Alder Lake in the winter. Man standing beside the sled.

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12. Letter from historian Michael Dunn to MWHS board member, MW Town Chairman and good friend John Hanson regarding sharing Dunn's historical writings. 2017 - Dunn's letter also discusses Winchester's Buswell lumber company and references historic area train service (record #2018.7.12) and post offices along train routes (#2018.7.13). See related records for images of the Buswell building siding Dunn discusses.

    2017

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13. Logging history Phase 3- cutting and transporting logs to Loveless sawmill circa 1920's - Loggers working in the woods cutting and transporting logs. Part of Logging history Phase 3. Shows logs staged for transport and a truck loading with logs to drive to the Loveless sawmill.

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14. Loveless sawmill building - Alder Lake circa 1920's - Loveless sawmill on Alder Lake showing the building where logs were elevated inside to cut into boards of lumber.

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15. Loveless sawmill on Alder Lake circa 1920 - Loveless sawmill- landing, dock and sawmill waste Alder Lake

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16. "Old towns now gone: Buswell typifies old northern towns" by Alan G. Barbia 1992 - This article discusses the lumber town of Buswell on Papoose Lake (1895-1910). It also mentions the towns of Fosterville, Winegar, Presque Isle, Winchester and Oxley as well as the push to sell logged land for farming purposes.

    Logging Collection

    Record Type: Library

    
17. Pulp mill of the Flambeau Paper Company late 1910s - Located on the Flambeau River in Park Falls, WI

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18. Sawing lumber at Loveless mill on Alder Lake. circa 1920 - Loveless sawmill. Man sawing logs into lumber. Alder Lake

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19. Stacking lumber at the Winchester mill ca 1900 - Photo is from the Fayette Buck estate. Men and women working at the mill.

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20. Stacks of processed lumber at the Loveless sawmill- Alder Lake ca late 1910s-1935 - Loveless sawmill on Alder Lake showing the railroad tracks used to move lumber around the yard and stacks of processed lumber.

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