local history

  • Hayward and the Big Mill

    Anthony Judson Hayward must have come to the site of the town named in his honor well before November 11, 1880, the date the North Wisconsin Lumber Company was organized. Continue reading

    Hayward and the Big Mill
  • History’s Little Mysteries

    One of the things I love about studying history is the sense of how interpretations are overlapped by time. So often what we think is “truth” is opinion, even when we are looking at “facts”. In my Jewell Johnson Mysteries… Continue reading

    History’s Little Mysteries