The Booth Cooperage – Bayfield, WI
N 46° 48.744 W 090° 48.766
15T E 666864 N 5186639
A sign outside the historic Booth Cooperage tells a little about the importance of this barrel making operation.
Waymark Code: WMJ97H
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 10/13/2013
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A sign outside the historic Booth Cooperage tells a little about the importance of this barrel making operation. The building is now privately owned by the Trek & Trail kayak outfitting business. The sign reads:
At one time, a local fishery once encompassed this entire block. Early sailing vessels would bring their harvests here to be salt packed in barrels and shipped to market. Here in “The Cooperage,” one of the remaining buildings of that fishery, 5 skilled coopers assembled barrels around a huge open hearth. The coopers turned out a high quality, hand made barrel, that was said to hold a “150 pound pack of salt fish.”
Today, power driven fishing boats still land fish here in Bayfield, one of Wisconsin’s most famous fishing villages. Herring are still being salted annually, as it was done over 150 years ago.
National Register of Historic Places
1976
Erected 1976
Street address:
1 East Washington St
Bayfield, WI USA
54814
County / Borough / Parish: Bayfield County
Year listed: 1976
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Industry
Periods of significance: 1925-1949, 1900-1924
Historic function: Agriculture/Subsistence, Industry/Processing/Extraction
Current function: Commerce/Trade
Privately owned?: yes
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
Secondary Website 1: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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