Manitou Camp, Historic fishing camp on Manitou Island, Wisconsin.
The camp encompasses 2.9 acres of land with multiple wooden structures including cabins, a twine shed, a smokehouse, and fishing equipment storage buildings.
Four Swedish loggers established the camp in the 1890s, constructing a cabin with hand-flattened cedar logs that remains standing on the grounds today.
The Norwegian brothers Theodore and Hjalmer Olson added a log bunkhouse in traditional Scandinavian design after purchasing the camp in 1938.
The National Park Service maintains the site, which contains preserved fishing equipment such as handmade windlass, boat skids, fish boxes, and salt barrels.
John Hanson, one of the original Swedish settlers, built a specialized smokehouse in the 1930s for processing both herring and venison.
Location: Wisconsin
GPS coordinates: 46.95556,-90.67639
Latest update: September 23, 2025 14:25
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