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The end of Chequamegon Bay is known as the site of the first dwelling in present-day Wisconsin to have been occupied by European men. Two French fur traders , Médard des Groseilliers and Pierre-Esprit Radisson , built a hut somewhere on the west shore of the bay, probably in 1658.
The Rainbow Lake Wilderness is a 7,135-acre (29 km 2) wilderness area located within the Chequamegon unit of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. [1] The land is in northern Wisconsin and entirely in Bayfield County. The wilderness area is operated by the United States Forest Service. [2]
The Chequamegon National Forest comprises three units in the north-central part of the state totaling 865,825 acres (3,503.87 km 2). In descending order of forestland area, it is located in parts of Bayfield, Ashland, Price, Sawyer, Taylor, and Vilas counties. Forest headquarters are in Park Falls.
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.
During the early part of the 1870s Ashland was a small settlement, surrounded by a heavily wooded wilderness. Seeing the potential to make money in the future logging activity of the area, W.R. Sutherland founded the Ashland Lumber Company, the first sawmill in Ashland.
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.
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
It is the northernmost region of mainland Wisconsin, with the south shore of Lake Superior to the west and Chequamegon Bay to the east. The peninsula is part of the Lake Superior Lowland, though the interior southeast of Cornucopia and west of Bayfield has some higher ground including Pratt's Peak, Bayfield County's second-highest point.