The logging museum in Wabeno was very interesting to visit. They had it stocked with a lot of items from the logging days in the late 1800's. There were a lot of pictures of the people from that era doing the logging and it sure looked like a lot of hard work. No wonder people did not live as long back then. But they were all thin!!
We found out that Adolph Rusch, Barbs grandfather had a house on a certain street and his brothers also lived on the same street. We drove by the area and the houses are still standing and one has been turned into a funeral home. Most of the homes from that time period are still in good condition so they have been kept up. We think the funeral home was probably Adolphs home but we didnt not stop to find out.
The steam engine in the photo was used back in that era to pull the logs out of the woods to the lumber mills. Since most of the trees back in that time were hardwoods they could not float them in the rivers as they did not float well. This steam engine is still workable and they transport it around the US to several events each year.
The photo of the pile of logs is being pulled by the steam engine and there was one photo in the museum of it pulling several stacks of these logs thru the woods.
As you may notice in one of the photos they finally caught up with Barb and she was put in the Wabeno Jail. One of the photos also shows the statue they have at the museum of a logger. Another photo of the AE Rusch company coupon, I think they used this instead of money as they had several of the coupons with different dollar values on them.
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