Welcome to Lake Nebagamon -- as it Began
Lake Nebagamon
is as beautiful lake
as anyone could imagine in the northern reaches of Wisconsin
with Norway and white pine towering over oaks, maples, poplars, and hundreds
of lesser hardwoods and conifers. It is difficult for the observer looking out across the lake
as the twentieth century draws to a close to imagine
the moonscape that the environs had become as the century
was born.
In the late eighteenth century, lumber baron, Fredrick Weyerhauser
brought his family to Lake Nebagamon, a move that was to ravage the landscape,
but build a flourishing town with vital businesses and a thriving
tourist industry.
You are invited to travel through the village as it was
late in the nineteenth and early in the twentieth century.
The logging industry
The cheese undustry (this is Wisconsin, after all)
The ice harvest -There was lots of it, and it did come in handy
Summer recreation
Winter play
An historic presidential visit to the area
Village scenes
Lake Nebagamon schools
The Lawn Beach evolution
Funded in part by The Wisconsin Humanities Council
and the Douglas County Board of Supervisors.
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