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52-464: Lac Courte Oreilles is located approximately eight and one-half miles southeast of the city of Hayward , the primary commercial and retail center of the area, and is one of three large natural lakes (Lac Courte Oreilles, Grindstone Lake , and Round Lake) located to the south and east of the city. There is a small unincorporated residential community on the north side of the lake commonly referred to as Northwoods (or North Woods) Beach. The eastern part of

104-429: A female householder with no husband present, and 44.8% were not families. About 39.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.1% had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.09, and the average family size was 2.78. In the city, the age distribution was 22.6% under 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 22.4% who were 65 or older. The median age

156-573: A lumber mill. Until 1880 the spot was connected to the outside world only by river or logging tote roads, but in that year the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway built its tracks through, connecting it to the Twin Cities and Chicago , and making Anthony Hayward's sawmill plan much more lucrative. He found financial backing and a partner in Robert Laird McCormick and managed to buy

208-659: A portion of the northern boundary of the Driftless Area . The river is easily accessible for bikers and pleasure seekers via the Chippewa River State Trail , which follows the river from Eau Claire to Durand . The river is formed by the confluence of the West Fork Chippewa River, which rises at Chippewa Lake in southeastern Bayfield County , and the East Fork Chippewa River, which rises in

260-554: A water works. Four blocks of the village streets were paved with brick. In the surrounding country, settlers were beginning to wrest little farms out of the stump-lands cut off by the loggers. In 1896 it was reported that 432 bushels of corn were produced in Sawyer County, 610 bushels of barley, 14,516 bushels of oats, 380 bushels of rye, 1,125 tons of hay, 12,417 tons of potatoes, 3,065 bushels of non-potato root crops, and 6,500 pounds of butter. The same summary noted that dairy farming

312-590: Is a city in Sawyer County, Wisconsin , United States, next to the Namekagon River . Its population was 2,533 at the 2020 census . It is the county seat of Sawyer County. The city is surrounded by the Town of Hayward . The City of Hayward was formally organized in 1883. Before logging, the area that would become Hayward was a forest of pine and hardwoods cut by rivers and lakes. In later years Ojibwe people dominated

364-715: Is based in Hayward. Founded in 2017, it competed in the Duluth Amateur Soccer League in 2018. In 2019, the Wolfpack became a founding member of the Wisconsin Primary Amateur Soccer League, a United States Adult Soccer Association and WSL-sanctioned league operating in western Wisconsin. Stations received in Hayward from the Duluth area include: Hayward High School and Hayward Middle School serve

416-463: Is covered by water. Hayward is 71 miles southeast of Superior , 27 miles northeast of Spooner , about 107 miles north of Eau Claire , and 57 miles southwest of Ashland . As of the census of 2010, 2,318 people, 1,048 households, and 550 families resided in the city. The population density was 740.6 inhabitants per square mile (285.9/km ). The 1,227 housing units had an average density of 392.0 per square mile (151.4/km ). The racial makeup of

468-739: Is permitted. About 95.7 miles of state-funded ATV trails are available for winter use and 80.8 miles are for summer use. State-owned trails include the Tuscobia Trail (51 miles), which runs from the Flambeau River to the western county line and the Dead Horse Connector (38 miles) in the eastern Flambeau Forest. The trail system also connects to 140 miles of trail within the Chequamegon National Forest . Hayward allows ATVs on some city roads. The annual Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival

520-514: Is shared by the nearby Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation . In the Ojibwe language , the lake is called Odaawaa-zaaga'iganiing , meaning 'Ottawa Lake,' after another of the Anishinaabe peoples. It was referred to as such (or as "Ottowaw Lake") in early English-language descriptions of the area. French fur trappers , the earliest European explorers in the area, named it Lac Courte Oreilles after

572-719: Is the Chippewa Flowage, which is the 3rd largest lake in Wisconsin. The river's primary tributaries include the Couderay , Thornapple , Flambeau , Brunet , Jump , Fisher , Yellow , Eau Claire , Red Cedar and Eau Galle Rivers. The river's confluence with the Red Cedar is just north of the Driftless Zone , at which point its floodplain widens out considerably, and includes numerous riverine islands. The primary settlements along

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624-476: Is the county seat of Sawyer County. The mayor as of 2023 was Gary Gillis. U.S. Highway 63 , Wisconsin Highway 27 , Wisconsin Highway 77 , and County Highway B are the main routes in the community. Hayward has a public bus service, Namekagon Transit, which has three separate lines. Route 30 starts at Walmart and runs through the town with stops at Sawyer County Courthouse and Marketplace Foods , and then runs to

676-448: Is the nation's largest mass-start mountain-bike race. The first Fat Tire Festival was held in 1983 with 27 riders, and in 2008, the race was capped at 2,500 competitors. The two main races include the 40-mile "Chequamegon 40", and the 16-mile "Short and Fat". Participants in the annual Lumberjack World Championships compete in a variety of lumberjack games, such as log rolling , chopping, sawing, and chainsaw events. Hayward hosts

728-463: The American Birkebeiner cross-country skiing race, North America's largest cross-country ski marathon. The race started in 1973. No U.S. Ski Team members were in it, or any foreign skiers. Then unknown, it now has over 13,000 skiers race every year. It is one of Hayward's largest and most popular tourist attractions. The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe host several pow-wows throughout

780-486: The Chippewa Flowage , which are known for yielding trophy-sized muskellunge , northern pike , walleye , and smallmouth bass . It is also home to the "Quiet Lakes" (Teal, Ghost and Lost Land Lakes), which do not allow water sports. The National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame is in Hayward. It contains a 143-foot (44 m) fiberglass muskie, the world's largest fiberglass structure. Tourists can climb up into

832-728: The Namekagon Portage , and the Namekagon River ) and thence northward to Lake Superior . In describing their visit to the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian village, Carver and another member of the expedition, James Stanley Goddard, said that they were the first white people to have visited the area. They likely did not know about the travels of Radisson and Groseilliers to the area about 1660, more than one hundred years before, and were not likely to have been reading French sources, if available. The 19th-century United States Indian agent in this area, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft , visited

884-754: The Ottawa Anishinaabe peoples living in the area. The French believed they cut off the edges of their ear lobes, so referred to them as the Courtes Oreilles , or 'Short Ears.' An alternative explanation is that some tribes in the region had a practice of distending their earlobes by earrings or other ornaments, and the local people's ears looked short in contrast. But the Indians of the Lac Courte Oreilles area did not practice that custom and had naturally shaped "short" ears. Prior to European exploration,

936-817: The Wisconsin River . It is estimated that the Chippewa system drained 34% of Wisconsin's pineries, as compared to 21% for the Wisconsin, 14% for the St. Croix, and 7% for the Black. Before logging, the Chippewa Valley probably held about 46,000,000,000 board feet of lumber. Frederick Weyerhaeuser described it as "a logger's paradise, a very large part of its area being heavily forested with the finest quality of white pine timber, while rivers, streams, and lakes offered an excellent network of transportation facilities." The first sawmill in

988-644: The 1757 edition of the Mitchell Map as " Hahatonadeba River ", the maps show the transliteration of the Dakota language name for the river Ḣaḣatuŋ[waŋ W]atpa . The word "Chippewa" is a rendering of "Ojibwe." The Ojibwe people controlled most of the upper Chippewa Valley and its tributaries until the Treaty of St. Peters in 1837. Of the pine forests in Wisconsin in the 1800s, the Chippewa River system held more than even

1040-433: The Chippewa Valley was probably functioning at what would become Menomonie around 1831. By 1840, Jean Brunet and associates were sawing wood at Chippewa Falls . Floods destroyed these early mills, and the lumbermen rebuilt them. In the late 1800s, Chippewa Falls was said to have the largest sawmill under one roof in the world. By the 1850s, the loggers were binding the sawed pine lumber into rafts which were guided down

1092-613: The North Woods Beach neighborhood; the other heads on CTH-E and terminates in the unincorporated community of Reserve . Namekagon Transit also has door-stop services in Sawyer, Barron , Washburn , and some parts of Bayfield counties. Sawyer County Airport serves Hayward and the surrounding communities. Hayward is a popular fishing destination because of the many lakes in the area, including Lac Courte Oreilles , Grindstone Lake , Round Lake, Moose Lake, Spider Lake, Windigo Lake, and

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1144-485: The area along with much of northern Wisconsin, until the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters , when they ceded it to the U.S. Logging along the Namekagon River had begun by 1864, when government surveyors noted that T. Mackey had a logging camp on the river at what would become Hayward. In the winter of 1878 Anthony Judson Hayward walked up on the ice, assessed mill sites and timber possibilities upstream, and decided to build

1196-706: The area in 1767 while traveling north from the Mississippi River up the Chippewa River . He reported staying at the Indian village on Lac Courte Oreilles (he referred to it as Ottowaw Lakes) from June 22 through 29, 1767. He described the village as being on either side of a channel between two lakes, which he referred to as the Ottowaw Lakes. He next travelled to the St. Croix River (by way of Grindstone Lake , Windigo Lake ,

1248-491: The area of Lac Courte Oreilles was inhabited by the Ojibwa Indians. The first known visit by Europeans to the area was around 1660. Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers travelled from Chequamegon Bay on Lake Superior southward through the area in 1659 and stayed for a period at an Ojibwe village on a lake that has been identified as Lac Courte Oreilles. The English explorer Jonathan Carver passed through

1300-492: The channel between Lac Courte Oreilles and Little Lac Courte Oreilles. Lac Courte Oreilles and this village were well known to traders and explorers of the time, and the village was one of the larger Indian settlements in the area. Schoolcraft listed its population as 504 persons in his report based on his 1832 exploration to the sources of the Mississippi River. This meant that it was one of the largest Indian settlements in

1352-551: The city was 83.3% White, 0.4% African American, 11.8% Native American, 0.9% Asian, 0.3% from other races, and 3.2% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 2.5% of the population. Of the 1,048 households, 27.6% had children under 18 living with them, 32.5% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.9% had a male householder with no wife present, and 47.5% were not families. About 41.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.0% had someone living alone who

1404-501: The city. The population density was 717.2/sq mi (276.8/km ). The1,064 housing units had an average density of 358.4/sq mi (138.3/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 89.62% White, 0.14% African American, 8.08% Native American, 0.66% Asian, 0.56% from other races, and 0.94% from two or more races. About 0.85% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos of any race. Of the 960 households, 26.8% had children under 18 living with them, 38.2% were married couples living together, 13.9% had

1456-516: The community. Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College offers several degrees. Hayward officially has one sister city : Chippewa River (Wisconsin) The Chippewa River in Wisconsin flows approximately 183 miles (294 km) through west-central and northwestern Wisconsin. It was once navigable for approximately 50 miles (80 km) of its length, from the Mississippi River , by Durand , northeast to Eau Claire . Its catchment defines

1508-479: The fish's mouth and look over the town, as well as Lake Hayward . In addition to fishing, Hayward is also a hot spot for deer hunting, golfing, cross-country skiing , snowmobiling , canoeing, kayaking, horseback riding, and road and mountain biking. Sawyer County has over 600 miles of groomed snowmobile trails, including 335 miles that run through county forests and connect with trails in adjoining counties. ATV (quad bikes) riding along county forest logging roads

1560-468: The lake and Ottawa village in 1831. He described the trip from the Namekagon River to Lac Courte Oreilles by way of the Namekagon Portage , Windigo Lake and Grindstone Lake . Schoolcraft visited the Indian village on Lac Courte Oreilles and described it as being located at the outlet of the lake. From Carver's and Schoolcraft's descriptions, the Ottawa village appeared to have been located on either side of

1612-612: The lake is located in the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation . The shore of the lake is principally occupied by seasonal lake cabins and homes. The lake has an abundance of northern pike , muskie , walleye , bass and other fish , and is a popular fishing destination. Lac Courte Oreilles is now a popular resort area drawing cabin owners and visitors from the Minneapolis-St. Paul , Milwaukee and Chicago metropolitan areas. The name Lac Courte Oreilles

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1664-538: The last parcels of land for his sawmill in 1881. Their North Wisconsin Lumber Company dammed the river at the site of the current Hayward dam and built a sawmill, shingle mill, and planing mill to the north, called by 1883 "the Big Mill." That same year the village of Hayward was platted and Sawyer County was established, formed from parts of early versions of Chippewa and Ashland Counties. The village of Hayward

1716-475: The lower Chippewa to markets on the Mississippi. Above Chippewa Falls, though, the river was too rough and rocky for large rafts. Masses of individual logs were driven down by log drivers , sometimes called "river pigs." To make the drives more efficient and reliable, the loggers changed the river somewhat, dynamiting troublesome rocks, cutting trees that would snag logs, building up the banks in places, and damming

1768-491: The milk the children produced from the dairy herd was sold rather than fed to the children. These poor health conditions led to high rates of disease. The death rate during the 1918 flu pandemic was 10 times higher than the Wisconsin average. Students also died from epidemics of measles and pneumonia. Some students were sexually abused by the teachers. For speaking their Native languages, students were punished with beatings, public humiliation, extra chores, and confinement in

1820-513: The region. The village's importance was likely associated with the strategic site of Lac Courte Oreilles on the route between the Chippewa River watershed and the St. Croix River watershed. The latter watershed was reached from Lac Courte Oreilles by travelling north and west through Grindstone Lake , Windigo Lake , and over the Namekagon Portage to the Namekagon River in the St. Croix River watershed. Hayward (city), Wisconsin Hayward

1872-440: The river and its tributaries. Around 1876, a dam and log-sorting works were built between Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. In 1878 a large splash dam was built at Little Falls (modern Holcombe ), with so much capacity that when fully opened, it could raise the Chippewa three feet 100 miles downstream. Over the Chippewa and its tributaries, the loggers built at least 148 logging dams of various sizes and purposes. The Chippewa River

1924-476: The river's course include Cornell , Chippewa Falls , Eau Claire , and Durand . Historically, the Chippewa River was important as a float way for lumbering and papermaking . The river has a deep, wide canyon, likely due to larger water discharges during Laurentide Ice Sheet retreat. Chippewa River Bottoms is located along the river. The 1742, Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi as " Rivière de bon Secours ou Hahatonouadeba ", and then in

1976-470: The river's mouth forms a delta that protrudes into the Mississippi, creating Lake Pepin in the process. Along the last 15 miles (24 km) of its course, the main channel forms the county boundary between Pepin and Buffalo Counties. Major lakes along the river's route include the Radisson and Holcombe Flowages, Lake Wissota and Dell's Pond , all of which are reservoirs. The largest reservoir by far

2028-575: The school had been identified. The school closed in 1934 and was converted to the Hayward Area Memorial Hospital. Hayward is located at 46°0′36″N 91°28′50″W  /  46.01000°N 91.48056°W  / 46.01000; -91.48056 (46.01, -91.480556). According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has an area of 3.36 square miles (8.70 km ), of which 0.23 sq mi (0.60 km )

2080-527: The school jail. The school jail was a cell with bars in the basement of the boy's dormitory, where children were fed only bread and water. Other students were punished by being forced to kneel on marbles for hours. Hayward students sometimes went out into the woods on the weekends and spoke Ojibwe together since it was forbidden in school. On one occasion, a secret drum dance was held, where students prepared by secretly sewing jingles onto their dresses and practicing their singing at night. The superintendents caught

2132-406: The school's operation, girls were encouraged to practice Native beadwork styles, but by 1910, this had been discontinued. Overcrowding and poor sanitation endangered the students' health. Dishes were rarely cleaned, students slept two to a bed, and during the winter, they crowded into small rooms for indoor activities because the school had no gymnasium. Children were served moldy bread, and most of

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2184-523: The school, children were forced to take on Christian names, cut their hair, wear military style uniforms, and march in military formations. Boys and girls were strictly segregated in separate buildings. The curriculum focused on English language, Christian religion, and industrial labor. Provision of teachers was so poor that few students graduated, and graduation certificates were withheld from students who were thought likely to return to their reservations instead of assimilating into white society. The school

2236-514: The students and punished them by burning their drums, hitting their knuckles, and forcing the girls to wear signs around their necks reading, "I will not squaw dance". Due to the poor conditions and harsh discipline, runaways were common; in 1920 alone, 69 children ran away from the school. In 2024, the Department of the Interior released a report that stated three students who died during their time at

2288-484: The swamps of the southern part of the Town of Knight in Iron County, Wisconsin . The rivers' confluence is at Lake Chippewa , a reservoir in central Sawyer County , which is the official "beginning" of the Chippewa River. The river flows from Sawyer County through Rusk , Chippewa , Eau Claire , Dunn , Pepin and Buffalo Counties, in Wisconsin, before emptying out into the Mississippi River. Sediment build-up at

2340-535: The transfer center at the Sevenwinds Casino, where one can transfer to or from Lines 40 or 60. Route 40 runs in a complete circuit route past Round Lake and to some other rural neighborhoods around the areas, and then arrives back at the transfer center. Route 60 runs south from the casino, making two stops, then diverging into two lines at the LCO Country Store. One heads on CTH-K, and eventually terminates in

2392-660: The year. One of the Midwest's largest pow-wows is held annually on the third weekend of July near Hayward. The Honor the Earth Pow-wow honors Mother Earth and the Creator. The Park Theatre is a performing arts center in Hayward, on Highway 63, operated by the Cable Hayward Area Arts Council. A variety of musical and artistic performances are presented throughout the year. Hayward Wolfpack FC, an amateur soccer club,

2444-488: Was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 88.2 males. For every 100 females 18 and over, there were 81.9 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 28,421, and for a family was $ 36,287. Males had a median income of $ 30,174 versus $ 20,769 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 16,658. About 10.6% of families and 14.5% of the population were below the poverty line , including 19.5% of those under age 18 and 7.1% of those age 65 or over. Hayward

2496-472: Was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.10 and the average family size was 2.80. The median age in the city was 39.8 years. 23.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.6% were from 25 to 44; 23.5% were from 45 to 64; and 20.8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.5% male and 52.5% female. As of the census of 2000, 2,129 people, 960 households, and 530 families were residing in

2548-488: Was designated its county seat. The mill town and county seat grew. By 1897 "2,000 souls" lived in the village, with 120 men working in the mill. Around that time the mill produced each year about 40 million feet of lumber, 10 million lath , and 4 million shingles, and the whole mill with drying yards covered forty acres. The village had a school, four churches, a bank, a free library, a fire company, and "nearly every Secret Society known to man." The village had electricity and

2600-502: Was founded to assimilate indigenous children into white Christian American culture. Most of the students were Ojibwe and came from the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation ten miles away from the school. The school operated until 1934, when it closed due to being understaffed, underfunded, and overcrowded. During its operation, thousands of students passed through the school. Some were taken forcibly from their families. At

2652-413: Was funded in part by the government and in part by the labor of the children in agriculture and sewing. Male children cleared over 260 acres for cultivation. Girls were trained as housewives and lived in the "Homestead Cottage", where a female teacher taught them how to run a household. The girls sold their sewing products to support the school and prepared meals for the other students. In the first decade of

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2704-474: Was rapidly increasing in the area. Steady logging eventually depleted most of the pine, and then many of the hardwoods. The Big Mill at Hayward burned in 1922 and was not rebuilt. Logging on a smaller scale has continued ever since, along with agriculture. Meanwhile, tourism has become more and more important. In 1901, the Hayward Indian Residential School was established in Hayward. It

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