NE of Fifield, Fifield, Wisconsin. County/parish: Price.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 17, 1981. NRIS 81000055.
1 contributing structure.
The Round Lake Logging Dam is a historic dam on the south fork of the Flambeau River eighteen miles east of Fifield, Wisconsin, United States, where the river flows out of Round Lake. This earth and timber dam was originally built around 1880 to help lumber companies drive logs down the Flambeau River to sawmills around Eau Claire and beyond on the Mississippi. The wood parts of the dam were crumbling by the 1930s, so it was rebuilt then and again in 1995. The dam was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 - the only known surviving logging dam in northern Wisconsin, representing backwoods engineering of the 1880s.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106782179