Trade Corridor and Native territories around the Great Lakes in the 1760’s.
St. Paul to Lake Superior Map
Map Showing the Ceded Territories & Member Tribes
~ Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission
Treaties 1825 through 1854
Detail showing “Road to New Gordon”. (This map also shows the location of the Namekagon Bridge where Edward Gordon was postmaster in the 1860’s.)
The Northwest Barrens properties lie within the Ceded Territory of the state and are located near the St. Croix and Lac Courte Oreilles Bands of the Lake Superior Ojibwe, also known as the Chippewa.
Ojibwe people standing by a bull rush wigwam, c.1910.
~ Photo Minnesota Historical Society
View of the Old Wagon Trail on the South Unit Namekagon Barrens Wildlife Area
~ photo Brian Finstad
Photo of Bridge for Stagecoach Trail 2021
1915 Blaine Plat Map
Navy bean threshing
Logging on the St. Croix River
Dr. Aker Family Outside Their Cabin in Burnett County
~ UW-River Falls
Anderson family plot, located near NBWA.
~ photo Mark Nupen
1938 Aerial photo of Namekagon Barren Wildlife Area’s North Unit
William and Mary Clemens farm, South of Rand Creek

Distribution of Sharp-tailed Grouse in Wisconsin from 1850 to 2000 (Gregg and Niemuth 2000)

A DNR pamphlet about the Barrens

Circa 1969