We made it to Wabeno late in the afternoon and set up camp in the national forest campground about 4 miles from town on Richardson Lake. The trees in this area are really thick and almost all hardwoods.
We went into town to check it out real quick and drove around to see the sights.
They have a nice museum and several older buildings along the main hiway and lots of older homes. One of the homes is very large and is now a bed and breakfast Inn. It used to be owned back in the early 1900's by one of the lumber barons in this area.
Barb's Grandfather on her mother's side was a lumber baron here in 1898 into the early 1900's. She never met him as he had passed away before Barb was born.
The next day we went to the museum and found out all kinds of information and even found photos of Barb's grandfather, grandmother, 2 uncles and an aunt.
While in the logging business her grandfather opened a store in town so his employees would have a place to get the items they needed for day to day living. This store stayed in business until a fire in 1955 destroyed most of the building. The photo with the 3 men is Adolph Rusch and his 2 brothers, Barbs grandfather and great uncles. The photo of the building is the store that they owned. These photos are from the museum in town. It was very interesting to visit and we spent at least an hour there and had a nice conversation with the gentleman that was managing the museum at the time. He was born in Wabeno and had moved away and moved back when he retired. I will have more on Wabeno in the next post.
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