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Article: In this museum, you still hear `timber!'
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 14, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Summers used to come in here with a roar: the whining of up to 22
sawmills ripping into white cedar and Norway pine logs that routinely
choked the Menominee River, and the shouts and curses of "peavey"
men shoving and hooking those logs toward their respective mills.
At night, brothels rang with music and laughter as the men sought
distraction.
Such scenes played out from the mid-1800s to the turn of the
century, when logging was at its peak in this northeast corner of
the state. As the loggers moved on, farmers in this "cutover
region" used dynamite to blast out tree stumps and clear their land
for hay, potatoes, corn and other grains.
Echoes of those earlier, raucous days resound in ...