Logging gives birth to a community

Frederick Weyerhauser brought his family to lake Nebagamon in the late 1890s after having established his lumber empire in Illinois and Indiana. The Nebagamon Lumber Company was incorporated June 14, 1898. His son, John Phillip was assigned management of the company, and went on to lay out the mill site and construct seven and one-half miles of track to Hawthorne, Wisconsin to connect with the Omaha Railway. He also platted the town, built the mill, office, stables, boarding and rooming houses, a store, and other facilities. He built a home for his family which is now the "Big House" at Camp Nebagamon.

Horses hauled logs in the winter logs floated across Lake Nebagamon to the mill. The steamboat "Lora,"later used for excursion rides, pushes a load of logs to the sawmill. Later, the steamboat was used for lake excursions by summer tourists. The barracks which housed the workers. "The Dragon" The sawmill ran nearly day and night for ten years. Planing lumber. Employee wages were carefully recorded by hand.