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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