Croix firm of Walker, Judd and Veazie, which was also the first company to operate a sawmill in the valley in 1839. The "Namekagon Farm" was built as early 1868, by the Marine-on-St. One such farm was located near the modern day town of Trego Wisconsin on the Namekagon River, some hundred river miles above the head of steamboat navigation. Frequently these locations were the earliest settlements in the more remote areas of the St. From the farms, loggers and lumberjacks could purchase supplies closer to their camps and during the summer, they could pay a fee to house their draft animals. These farms would be stocked with goods and food brought by wagon from Taylors Falls, which could still receive supplies by steamboat in the early fall months. In the late-1860s, some logging companies built supply depots and farms to function as regional hubs for logging operations in the furthest reaches of the watershed. Croix pinery receded further and further from the navigable river way, the largest problem facing lumbermen was keeping logging camps supplied.
The most obvious is many of the white pine growing along the river are approaching 100+ years of age, for that is how long ago the logging era was. None of the camps have been preserved and most were beyond the narrow boundaries of the Riverway, but their impact can still be seen today. In the beginning of the era, there might be 50 or so smaller logging camps in the valley, however by the 1880s there could easily be over 150 camps in the valley during any given winter. However that expense did not deter the industry from expanding. As the logging camps became bigger, they also became more expensive and only larger lumber firms could afford the expense. The largest crews employed hundreds of men and the logging camps became small settlements of multiple buildings including mess halls, bunkhouses, supply warehouses, a blacksmith shop and perhaps barns for housing draft animals. By the 1870s, as the pinery receded further from the floatable rivers and lumberman began to buy larger stands of pine, more labor was needed to get the logs out of the woods. They would also have several teams of oxen for pulling logs to the riverbank. Each outfit might employ a dozen or so lumberjacks living in a single log-built shanty that functioned as a bunkhouse, mess hall and supply store. In the early 1830s and 1840s, these logging camps were usually small operations, close to the rivers that supplied cheap transportation. Each camp was only used for a couple of years until the pine was cut down, and then the camp would be moved closer to another stand. These managers then hired crews of lumberjacks to fell, stack and float the pine down river to mill and market. To access these trees, "lumber barons" and other ambitious small-scale frontiersmen built logging camps in the fall that were closest to the best stands of pine. Croix were typically located in regions that were far from towns. While logging and settlement grew together, the best pine logs of the St. The logging industry began here prior to settlement. Minnesota Historical Society Logging Camps Croix.ĭuring the 1870's, ox teams hauled logging supplies on the tote road from Stillwater to Veazie Settlement, located two miles up river where the great Veazie Dam impounded water for log drives down the Namekagon to Stillwater.This logging camp was near Hayward on the Namekagon River
Henry Schoolcraft passed here in 1831 enroute from Lake Superior to the St. In 1767 Jonathan Carver passed this way, downstream on his way from Prairie du Chien to Lake Superior via the Namekagon, St. "Here on the Great South Bend of the Namekagon was a natural camp-site, home of a band of Chippewa Indians and long used by explorers, missionaries, and fur-traders traveling the Namekagon route between the St. Near the Namekagon River Visitor Center in Trego stands a historical marker that reads: Far earlier than even the 1800’s timber boom, the river was heavily used by explorers, missionaries, and fur-traders traveling the Namekagon route between the St. It was an integral part of the transportation of the logs down-river to the St. The Namekagon was used as a main "highway" for years during the timber boom. The name "Namekagon" comes from the Ojibwe word "Namekaagong-ziibi", meaning "river at the place abundant with sturgeon." From there it flows southwestwardly through Sawyer and Washburn Counties into Burnett County where it meets up with the St. The Namekagon begins in southern Bayfield County at Lake Namakagon.
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