l0 - sung· by a professor of muSIC from Northland-~- C) tfitr/1'? College. Driscoll was introduced b~t app~en.tly did not say anything worth reportmg. A p1~~c dinner was served at the Gordon Lake pavilion Monuments, after the dedication. Iri October 1665 Fathe1· Claude Jean Allouez, a Jesuit priest, arrived at Chequamegon. Bay to memorials dot conduct missionary work among the Indians. He constructed a crude chapel on the shore near the head of the bay, but the exact location is uncertain. · Chequamegon He returned to Quebec and was succeeded by Father Jacques Marquette, in September 1669, who either occupied the chapel left by Allouez . Bay region or constructed another one on the same site. In the summer of 1671 Father Marquette and the members of several Indian ti·ibes, living peace­ Several markers and monuments identify fully on the bay, were driven away by the Sioux the locations of important historical events and On May 25, 1915, a shrine in memory of Al­ places in the Chequamegon Bay region. louez and Marquette, dedicated to Our Lady The Penokee highland, located about two of Lourdes, was erected on a hill overlooking miles south of Ashland, is the watershed be­ the bay at Missions Springs, located between tween Lake Superior and the great river sys­ Barksdale and Nash. tems to the south. The first recorded visit by Europeans to North of the watershed, known as the Great Chequamegon Bay occurred in the summer of Divide, water drains into the Great Lakes and 1659 by the French explorers and fur traders, eventually through the St. Lawrence River into brothers-in-law Pierre Esprit Radisson and the Atlantic Ocean. Medard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers. They South of the watershed, water flows through built a hut at the head of the bay, probably the St. Croix River, · near Fish Creek, supposedly the first white Wisconsin River and man's house in Wisconsin. On Oct. 25, 1931, a numerous smaller marker on the site was dedicated by the presi­ rivers into the Missis­ dent of the State Historical Society, which was sippi River and then ceremoniously unveiled by two Native Ameri­ to the Gulf of Mexico. can women. The high point On July 5, 1854, Asaph Whitttlesey and of the watershed is George Kilborn rowed over from La Pointe and located near Gordon landed near the intersection of Ashland's cur­ Lake, a short distance rent Lakeshore Drive and 18th Avenue West. east of Highway 13, just north of Glidden, They cut down a tree, which became part of the foundation of their log cabin, the first known in Ashland County. house built in Ashland. On Sunday, Aug. 14, On July 5, 1929, as part of the Diamond 1932, a white monu­ ment 4 feet wide and Lars Jubilee, a large stone marker placed on ~he 8 feet high, appro­ ·site, bearing a metal plate commemoratmg the priately inscribed on Larson event, was unveiled with appropriate cere~ony. Three signs identify locations important m both sides and located • has been a guest colum­ on a farm then owned nist for The County Journal the history of Chequamegon Bay. In Cornucopia by Frank Driscoll, was for many years. ''The Tragedy of the Siskiwit" sign recounts the unveiled and dedicat- Indian legend of Chippewa Chief Bi-Aus-Wah, ed, marking the high who gave himself up to a raiding party of Fox point of the watershed. Indians to be burned to death in.place of his son. The Ashland Daily Press reported that In Washburn, "Washburn's Historic Water­ hundreds of people from Ashland and the sur­ front," ·at the west end of the walking trial, rounding area attended the ceremony. Guy M. describes the wharves that lined.the waterfront Burnham, a well-known local historian, vari- when Washburn was an important lumbering . ·ous public officials and other regional notables center and port. At the west end of Ashland, in attended the event and made appropriate speeches. _ __ _ Memorial Park, an overlook provides a view of the historic ore docks and Chequamegon Bay, Two poems, "I'tie- w aterslied~'-and zrode !0 with a sign that describes an ongoing shore Trees," WP"'<> ·read and a song titled "Trees was restoration project. ·