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Encyclopedia Britannica



WASHBURN

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 344 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WASHBURN , a city and the county-seat of Bayfield county,
Wisconsin
 , U.S.A., about 52 M. E. of Superior, Wis., and about 6 m. N. of
Ashland
 , on Chequamegon Bay, an arm of Lake Superior. Pop. (1910) 3830. Washburn is served by the Northern Pacific and the Chicago & North-Western railways, and by several lines of lake steamships. The city is finely situated on high
land
  above the bay, and is a popular summer resort, being especially well known for its boating and fishing. It has a
Carnegie
  library. Among its manufactures are staves, shingles,
lumber
 , wooden
ware
  and bricks. There is a powder and dynamite plant in the vicinity. In the city there are also
grain
  elevators and large coal docks, and in the neighbourhood are valuable stone quarries. In 1659 Radisson and Groseilliers touched here on their trip along the
south
  shore of Lake Superior. In 1665 Father Claude Allouez, the Jesuit, established on the shore of the bay, a short distance
south
  of the present city, the first French mission in
Wisconsin
 , which he named " La Pointe du Saint Esprit," and which in 1669 was placed in charge of Father Jacques Marquette. The place was visited by Du Luth in 16811682, and here in 1693 Le Sueur, a fur trader, built a stockaded post. In 1718 a fort was erected and a French garrison placed in it. About 182o1821a trading post of the American Fur Company was established in the neighbourhood. The present city, named in honour of
Governor
  C. C. Washburn,
dates
  from about 1879, but its growth was slow until after 1888. It was chartered as a city in 1904.


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