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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVX6_hayward-and-the-big-mill_Hayward-WI.html
Anthony Judson Hayward, 1835-1913, found this an ideal site for a water powered saw mill and organized the North Wisconsin Lumber Company to harvest the vast pine stands of the upper Namekagon. Their "Big Mill" was built beside the dam, began sawi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVWU_the-chippewa-flowage_Hayward-WI.html
In 1921, the Federal Power Commission granted a license to the Wisconsin and Minnesota Power and Light Company for a dam construction on the Chippewa River. The dam was completed in 1923, and provided hydroelectric power and flood control to the a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVVH_namekagon-court-oreilles-portage_Hayward-WI.html
Still visible here is the southeast terminus of the 2½ mile portage that linked the St. Croix and Chippewa River systems. Indians, explorers, missionaries and fur-traders all used this "carrying place" to move their birch bark canoes back and…