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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
Viewing Records: 4,701 to 4,800 of 6,111
| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1880-06-18 | Floods | Long article on same flood. (See entry of June 10, 1880) |
| 1880-06-17 | Floods | More on same flood. (See entry of June 10, 1880) |
| 1880-06-17 | Woolen Mill | From EC Daily Argus: Old Robinson Mill gone over the dam. (Does this mean Robbins's Mill?) |
| 1880-06-12 | Floods | Long article on same flood. (See entry of June 10, 1880) |
| 1880-06-10 | Bridges - Chippewa River | Kelsey St. bridge held out 12 hours in flood & then went down. |
| 1880-06-10 | Floods | River up 13'. Big storm, description of one of biggest floods in history of EC. |
| 1880-06-10 | Lumbering | River up thirteen feet. Mills shut down, some flooeded. Mississippi River higher than in twenty years. Logs came over Dells Dam and broke all but one support on railroad bridge. |
| 1880-05-31 | Ferries | Hadley running 2 ferries and building another. |
| 1880-05-13 | Newspapers--Free Press | Secures Associated Press dispatches. |
| 1880-05-01 | Opera House | Total cost of ground for new Opera House $6,500. |
| 1880-04-30 | Lumbering | For first time in history of lumbermen feel confident nothing can stop them having a good drive. New dams have been put in and old ones strengthened. |
| 1880-04-22 | Telephones | Stringing 2nd trunk line to CF have 100 microphones in city and 20 to 25 in CF. |
| 1880-04-01 | Street Railway | Street car travel on increase average 500 per day. |
| 1880-03-31 | Water Works | Dells Improvement Co. and water works come to agreement. More. |
| 1880-03-31 | The Minnie Heerman | Eli Minder pilot and Captain Lou Mechlin. |
| 1880-03-31 | Dells Improvement | Dells Improvement Corporation and West Wisconsin Railroad come to agreement. |
| 1880-03-31 | Eau Claire Lumber Company | Eau Claire Lumber Company retiring from mercantile business. |
| 1880-03-31 | West Wisconsin Railroad | Railroad doing immense business. Passenger travel on increase. |
| 1880-03-31 | Chippewa Valley Railroad | Spur track on west side to be ready in June. |
| 1880-03-31 | Porter's Mills--Northwest Lumber Corporation | Sold entire stock of merchandise to GB Chapman and Company. |
| 1880-03-31 | Lumbering | Thirty eight million feet of logs down in EC drive. |
| 1880-03-01 | Bridges - Chippewa River | Bridges illuminated last week by gas. |
| 1880-02-29 | Water Works | Contract for water works signed. |
| 1880-02-29 | Street Railway | Street railway barns on west side. |
| 1880-02-29 | Eau Claire Lumber Company | Old officers re-elected. President JC Thorp; Vice President Richard Schulenburg; Treasurer NC Chapman; Secretary WA Rust; Directors: JT Gilbert, George Y Gilbert, JG Chapman. |
| 1880-01-31 | Porter's Mills--Northwest Lumber Corporation | Replaced blacksmith shop which burned. They removed large building to Washington Ave. which will form nucleus for residence for Ed Kneeland who is in their employ. |
| 1880-01-31 | Daniel Shaw and Company | Improving flour mill; now best in state. |
| 1880-01-01 | Bailey House | City Directory: stood at SW corner of 3rd Avenue & Water St. |
| 1879-12-31 | Moniter | Owned by Carlisle Brothers. |
| 1879-12-31 | Eau Claire Lumber Company | Put in 20,000,000 feet of logs in EC River up to January fifteenth. |
| 1879-12-31 | Dole, Ingram and Kennedy | Have thirty logging camps and expect to cut from 65,000 to 70,000 feet this winter. |
| 1879-11-30 | Telegraph | City Directory has date of Incorporation, office and officers. |
| 1879-11-30 | Clyde | Still owned by Ingram & Kennedy. |
| 1879-12-10 | Street Railway | First street car ran from depot to Valley Lumber Co. mill. Cars are for 2 horses and have seating capacity of 20. EC 3rd city in state to have street cars. Woodward, President of Co. Swift, Vice President, Shaw, Secretary. Line runs from depot to downtown with spur down Barstow. Runs 6 am to 10:30 pm. |
| 1879-12-04 | Eau Claire Lumber Company | Planing mill exploded. |
| 1879-11-30 | Lumbering | Mills cut more lumber in 1879 than in 1878 although slow start because of no back log. |
| 1879-10-31 | Dells Improvement Corporation | Ninety men constructing canal from Dells Dam down to Half Moon. One and a quarter mile long tunnel through one thousand feet of rock and sand. Tunnel commences at Randall St. |
| 1879-10-31 | Steamboats | Since introduction of railroad, steamboats depend entirely on raft crews returning. |
| 1879-10-31 | Steamboats | Since introduction of railroad, steamboats depend entirely on raft crews returning. |
| 1879-09-30 | Street Railway | Street car track being laid on North side. |
| 1879-09-30 | Labor and Labor Unions | Working Men's Society formed to protest long hours. |
| 1879-08-31 | The Minnie Heerman | New steamer, Minnie Heerman, made first appearance. Draws 10" water, 50 X 130' length, 30' beam. |
| 1879-08-22 | Ida Campbell | Raised. |
| 1879-08-20 | Ida Campbell | Sank at Round Hill. |
| 1879-07-03 | Mollie Mohler | Towing rafts on Mississippi from Beef Slough to points below. |
| 1879-06-30 | West Side Schools | Sixth Ward school burned. Only 5 years old. |
| 1879-06-05 | Civil War | has list of soldiers killed in Civil War. |
| 1879-06-05 | Civil War | Has list of soldiers killed in Civil War. |
| 1879-06-01 | Amusements | Circus on hill near University Square. |
| 1879-04-30 | Telephones | CF will soon have telephone communication with EC. |
| 1879-03-31 | Telephones | EC to have first telephone exchange in northwest Wisconsin in second story Stocking Brothers building, Barstow St. |
| 1879-03-31 | Street Railway | EC Railroad Co. Inc. Directors are O. H. Ingram, H. A. Rust, C. A. Bullen, S. W. McCaslin, W. H. Smith, A. Huyssen, G. E. Porter, H. P. Graham, G. A. Buffington, W. I. Kepler, J. F. Moore and L. E. Latimer. |
| 1879-02-28 | Captain E. E. Heerman | Reports Ida, Minnietta, Iowa City & Union will all be repaired & running on C. Is building new boat. |
| 1879-02-28 | Silas Wright | Now tows Mississippi rafts. |
| 1879-02-06 | Cornell Dam | Describes dam and wooden Indian statue 9' high. |
| 1879-01-09 | Temple of Honor | Now largest in world. |
| 1878-12-31 | Weslyn Seminary | Trustees assign Wright's contract to EC French and entire financial and educational management transferred to Professor Wheeler. |
| 1878-11-30 | Organizations and Entertainments | Many temperance meetings going on. |
| 1878-12-01 | EC House | New EC House opened. |
| 1878-11-01 | Bridges - Chippewa River | County Board appropriated $20,000 to build iron bridge across Chippewa at EC (must be Shawtown). |
| 1878-11-01 | Galloway Hotel | Having water pipes laid. |
| 1878-09-01 | Banking and Currency, see also: Depression for Ban | (speaking of 1858) Gold had disappeared & paper money of state banks became worthless. Trade was by barter. |
| 1878-09-01 | EC House | Wooden portions of EC House being supplanted by new building. |
| 1878-08-31 | Cornell Dam | Little Falls dam flow is 700 cu. ft. per second. |
| 1878-08-31 | Temple of Honor | Four hundred members. New hall over new building on Kelsey St. next to Chippewa bridge. |
| 1878-08-31 | Weslyn Seminary | James S Vail of Carmel, New York gave his interest in Seminary to Lake St. ME Church. |
| 1878-08-31 | Lumbering | In 1858 men who worked in woods all winter were paid with timber, they joined together to make up a raft and ran it down the Mississippi River where it could be exchanged for clothing and a little money at $7 or $8 per M. |
| 1878-08-29 | Weslyn Seminary | To reopen September 17. College preparatory, music, and commercial courses. NM Wheeler president, Reverend JA Wright, financial secretary. |
| 1878-08-10 | Jeannette Roberts | Captain Heerman raised Jeannette Roberts which was burned at Durand about 6 years ago. |
| 1878-08-01 | Galloway Hotel | Galloway House to reopen under Mr. A Bearup. Has gas in all rooms & will be one of best hotels in this part of state. |
| 1878-07-31 | Newspapers | History of several papers. |
| 1878-07-31 | Eau Claire Times | Some history of Times. |
| 1878-06-27 | EC House | 3rd & last story of new EC House raised. Will have sewer leading from it to river. |
| 1878-05-31 | Woolen Mill | Cas. E Hazen building abutments for bridge 62' from pier to pier, costing $800. |
| 1878-05-31 | West Side Schools | Three hundred seventy seven enrolled. AJ Hutton. |
| 1878-05-31 | Indians | Reports of alliance between Indians. |
| 1878-05-09 | Fires | No fires for 3 weeks. |
| 1878-05-09 | West Wisconsin Railroad | Sold under mortgage foreclosure. New Company formed, Chicago, St. Paul & Milwaukee Railroad. |
| 1878-05-01 | EC House | Old part of EC House bought by Peter Hart & William M. Morrison & moved to site of old American House, corner Farwell & Gibson & used as boarding house. |
| 1878-05-01 | Cary Transfer Co. | Drayman. |
| 1878-04-30 | Cornell Dam | Money being raised for dam. |
| 1878-04-30 | Temple of Honor | Members now number 335. Celebrate 3rd anniversary. |
| 1878-04-30 | East Side Schools | 353 pupils in east side school. |
| 1878-04-30 | East Side Schools | 353 pupils in east side school. |
| 1878-04-30 | Lumbering | Logs coming along Chippewa River at rate of one million feet per hour. Eddy five miles above jammed with 40,000,000 or 50,000,000 feet. |
| 1878-03-31 | Eau Claire County | County map being made. (Delivered in December) |
| 1878-03-31 | Telephones | Northwestern Lumber Co. had phone between mill and office. |
| 1878-03-31 | Street Improvements | Third Ward park graded & grass sown. |
| 1878-03-31 | Woolen Mill | First iron bridge in this part of state to be built on Otter Creek near woolen mill 3 miles south of town. |
| 1878-03-28 | Captain E. E. Heerman | Birney Demorest takes his former position in the capacity of head financier of the Heerman Line of steamboats this week. |
| 1878-03-23 | Ida Campbell | Steamer Ida Campbell of Heerman line fitted up in good style & looks bright & new. |
| 1878-03-01 | Bridges - Chippewa River | Bridge soon to be illuminated by gas. |
| 1878-02-28 | Telephones | Telephone between American Express office and EC Lumber Co.'s store. |
| 1878-01-31 | Dells Improvement | Dells Dam about completed. Pond filled in eighteen hours. Flowage backs up six and a half miles to Robson's mills and drowns out both Ash and Pine Rapids--two bad points for running lumber rafts in low water. Special train for sightseers came from CF to see Dam. |
| 1878-01-31 | Organizations and Entertainments | Revival meetings going on for weeks. |
| 1877-12-31 | Woolen Mill | Capt. DC Whipple has purchased an interest in the woolen mill on Otter Creek with Mr. Robbins. |
| 1877-12-31 | West Wisconsin Railroad | Railroad to be sold in Madison by order of court. Passengers now take dinner at Baldwin instead of Hudson. |
| 1877-12-31 | Weslyn Seminary | Professor Hall who used to be at Seminary now in Minnesota Legislature. |
| 1877-11-30 | Newspapers--Free Press | Price reduced to $1.50 per year. |
| 1877-11-30 | Immigrants | Many men leaving for Minnesota. |