1 / 14

Industry & innovation builds community

Industry & innovation builds community. Lumbering & Beyond. Part 1. Population Growth. Lumber industry attracted immigrants to Wisconsin and to Chippewa Falls. At first they were mostly Canadian and Yankee immigrants, then later German and Scandinavian.

jamesward
Download Presentation

Industry & innovation builds community

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Industry & innovation builds community Lumbering & Beyond Part 1

  2. Population Growth • Lumber industry attracted immigrants to Wisconsin and to Chippewa Falls. At first they were mostly Canadian and Yankee immigrants, then later German and Scandinavian. • Even though the mill failed and changed ownership many times since it was first built in 1836, the town still continued to grow as a result of the mill.

  3. Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company sawmill

  4. -

More Related