Caney School District No. 34

Organized April 13, 1871

First School Board

Dr. A.M. Taylor, Treasurer

C.H. Smith, Clerk

S.H. Ridgeway, Director

J.W. Hodges, Director

Berryman Smith, Director

First Teachers

Mrs. Omer M. Smith

Miss Billie Smith

Mrs. Adda Barrington

Marker is at the intersection of 4th Avenue and Wood Street, on the left when traveling ...

Bell's Trading Post and Village Water Well

1869 - 1870

Location of

Dr. J. W. Bell's Trading Post

and Village Water Well,

hand dug by John Luppy.

Also, original Caney

Survey Point and Marker

Marker is at the intersection of 4th Avenue and State Street, on the right when traveling west on 4th Avenue. ...

First Night Game in Organized Baseball

Played Here

Shulthis Stadium

April 28, 1930

Western Association League

Independence Producers vs

Muskogee Chiefs

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Washburn Lumbering Days / The Hines Lumber Company

(side 1)

Washburn Lumbering Days

Washburn begins on the shoreline of Chequamegon Bay. The city rises gradually 75 ft. above level of the water. In 1884, the town was created, born of the necessity of the railway (Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and ...

Dr. George Tann

November 27, 1825 - March 31, 1909

A Negro doctor that

doctored the Ingalls

for malaria

in 1870

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California – Oregon Trail / California – Oregon Road

About 60 feet above this marker a line of rocks marks the old Trappers and Emigrants Trail from Trinity River to Scott Valley. This route may have been used as early as 1829 by Hudson’s Bay trappers and others prior ...

United Spanish War Veterans Memorial

1898 - 1902

William McTaggart

Camp No. 25

instituted

Sept 25 1920

USA · Cuba · Porto Rico

Philippine Islands

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The Sprague Well

Historical Landmark

The Sprague Well, believed to be the first drilled artesian well in Bayfield County, was completed at 119 feet 8 inches in April, 1903 by Monroe H. Sprague at the mill office of the Akeley–Sprague Lumber Co. Flow from ...

Memorial to Commercial Fishermen of Bayfield

Past—Present—Future

Dedicated in 1981 to the hard working commercial fishermen whose indomitable spirits will not be forgotten.

Commissioned by Edwin Erickson,

Mayor of Bayfield, 1970-1976 & 1980-1988

Designed by Harold Kerr (1909-1981)

Constructed by Brian Kerr and Erickson Marine

The pilings were salvaged from the steamer ...

The Booth Cooperage

At one time, a local fishery once encompassed this entire block. Early sailing vessels would bring their harvests here to be salt packed in barrels and shipped to market. Here in “The Cooperage,” one of the remaining buildings of that ...