File:Great River Road - Beef Slough Sign at Wayside - NARA - 7718865.jpg

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Great River Road - Beef Slough Sign at Wayside   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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S. Clyde
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Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty. Office of Natural and Human Environment. National Scenic Byways Program. 1991-
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Great River Road - Beef Slough Sign at Wayside
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Original Caption: An interpretive sign at a wayside on the Great River Road in Wisconsin explains some history of the area.

Location: Location: Wisconsin

Status: Public domain. Photo by S. Clyde
Date Taken on 8 April 2006, 16:39 (according to Exif data)
institution QS:P195,Q518155
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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 7718865.

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  • Record group: Record Group 406: Records of the Federal Highway Administration (National Archives Identifier: 702)
  • Series: Digital Photographs Relating to America's Byways (National Archives Identifier: 7455326)
  • Former ARC Identifier: 406-NSB-053-4217_BeefSloughSignView.jpg
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The Beef Slough was a sluggish branch of the Chippewa River that provided an excellent storage pond for the logs floated downstream by numerous logging companies. Here loggers were employed to arrange the mixed-up logs into orderly rafts to be towed by steamboats to sawmills down the Mississippi.

The Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire sawmills felt threatened when the Beef Slough Manufacturing, Booming, Log Driving and Transportation Company was organized near here in 1867. Camp No. 1 built offices, a railroad depot, post office, church and dormitories to house 600 men during the rafting season.

The competition between the Eau Claire and Beef Slough interests developed into a brief dispute in 1868, sometimes called the "Beef Slough War." The most important result of the "war" was the arrival on the scene of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, whose Mississippi Logging Company brought skilled management and seemingly unlimited capital into the picture and changed the logging operations on the Chippewa from locally-operated activities into a major interstate industry.

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1976 by the Wisconsin Historical Society. (Marker Number 230.)
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Author Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty. Office of Natural and Human Environment. National Scenic Byways Program. 1991 Edit this at Structured Data on Commons

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