Lake Chippewa Flowage Vacation

Bill Price (M.C) of Black River Falls came in and built a dam on the Brunet in the early seventies. This is still known as Price’s Dam.  Hugh McPhee and Big John McDonald also logged on the Brunet the same time and built two dams of the Brunet lower down.  All the south portions of Sawyer County were then a portion of the towns of Big Bend and Bloomer of Chippewa County. The legislature of 1883 set up Sawyer County. Hundreds of Indians used to travel up and down the river, going back and forth every day, thirty, forty, and fifty canoes at a time.