welcome to amnicon falls

Welcome To Amnicon Falls

Chaz DaytonStephanie Reynolds

Megan SlaytonNick Haller

Compared to the rest of the parks, Amnicon Falls is 2nd most northern in Wisconsin.

Native American History

• 9,000 y.a. – Hunters followed receding glaciers and Mastodons into the area to hunt.

• 5,000 BC to 500 AD – Old Copper Culture Native Americans– Searched for Copper to make primitive tools

• 500 AD to First Europeans – Woodland Native Americans fished rivers– Ojibwa (Chippewa) Native Americans present

Early European Influence

• Trappers for mink, otter, and beaver• Treaty of 1842 – resulted from spread of

civilization; saved the land where the park is today

• 1850’s – Miners started moving into Douglas County, failed undeniably

Railroad, Brownstone, Lumber

• 1848 – portions of upper Wisconsin were given to the railroad to promote settlement

• 1886 – James Bardon purchased 180 acres from the railroad around the river and falls

• 1886 – Lumberjacks move in to collect pines and floated lumber down Amnicon River

• 1887 – Sandstone (brownstone) harvested from areas around the park. Some million cubic feet were harvested.

County Park Transferring

• 1932 – Douglas County purchased 60 acres around where the park is and received an additional 65 from the Bardon’s (Bardon Park)

• 1930’s – Douglas County gave the park to the Town of Amnicon

• 1940’s – Park’s popularity exploded, thus making ownership too expensive, and was turned back over to the county (now 160 acres)

Amnicon Falls, State Park

• 1961 – Title transferred to state, and was named

• Since the 1960’s – Park has grown to approx. 830 acres and is ever developing

Organic Life You May See

Plant Life: • Thimbleberry• Indian Pipe• Puffballs• Extense Fungi

collection, great for studying

Animal Life:• Beaver, Mink, Otter

down by river• Deer, Ruffed Grouse,

Coyote, Fox, Raccoon, Porcupine on the trail

• Intense Bird watching is a common hobby

Natural Geology

• Douglas Fault – Earthquakes occurred readily here half a billion years ago

• Dark basalt – Evidence of lava formations• Lower Falls – Created by an ocean millions of

years ago; it flows over Superior Sandstone• Potholes – Evidence of an old ocean, where

round stones chiseled their way into the basalt

Topography

Works Cited

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