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Located in Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior, it is owned and managed by the National Park Service, and is a part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. [8] It sits at the end of a long and detached breakwater, which creates an artificial harbor. [9]
Chequamegon Bay (/ ʃ ə ˈ w ɑː m ə ɡ ə n / shə-WAH-mə-gən) [1] is an inlet of Lake Superior in Ashland and Bayfield counties in the extreme northern part of Wisconsin. History [ edit ]
The region is served by the Chequamegon Bay Arts Council, a non-profit organization promoting the arts in northern Wisconsin. The Ashland Chamber Music Society is a volunteer organization that provides a venue for local and regional musicians to perform chamber music in the Ashland area.
Boaters on Kakagon Sloughs, July 2014. The Kakagon Sloughs are a number of tributaries that flow into Chequamegon Bay and Lake Superior in Ashland County, Wisconsin.Species of fish found in the sloughs include the northern pike, walleye, panfish, and smallmouth bass. [2]
Other lighthouses in the Apostle islands include both Old and New Michigan Island Lights, New La Pointe Light and Chequamegon Point Light on Long Island, Devils Island Light, and Outer Island Light. The ruins of Old LaPointe Light can still be seen on Long Island, approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) away from the wreckage of the schooner Lucerne.
The Chequamegon Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Long Island, one of the Apostle Islands, in Lake Superior in Ashland County, Wisconsin, near the city of Bayfield. [ 3 ] The Chequamegon Point light was maintained by the keeper of the La Pointe Light (about a mile away) and its original lens came from there.
An early map of Chequamegon Bay. The ferry Nichevo II, about to leave for Madeline Island. Nichevo is Russian for "no matter". [1] Madeline Island is an island in Lake Superior. Located in Ashland County, Wisconsin, it has long been a spiritual center of the Lake Superior Chippewa.
The Reserve includes areas of national significance, including the world's largest freshwater bay mouth sand bar (Wisconsin Point), estuarine wetlands, and steep highly erodible red clay bluffs. Significant historic and cultural sites exist within or adjacent to the boundary including Native American cultural sites throughout the estuary and on ...