Newspaper Abstracts - Bayfield County, Wisconsin - news articles submitted from area newspapers.

Transcriptions of area newspapers.

The following list is an extract from "Guide to Wisconsin Newspapers, 1833-1957", compiled by Donald E. Oehlerts, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, 1958. The Wisconsin Historical Society has copies of some of the newspapers on microfilm - see those newspapers with (WHi . . .) notations at the end of their descriptions.

Bayfield

BAYFIELD COUNTY JOURNAL (w) 9 Feb - 9 July 1978.

(WiHi Complete)

BAYFIELD COUNTY PRESS (w) 13 June 1877 - 14 May 1976, 5 June, 1980 - 26 Apr 1989.

Title varies: Bayfield Press, 1877 - Nov. 1882.
Merged with the Washburn Times to form the Washburn-Bayfield County Times, May 1976.
Merged with the Iron River Pioneer and the Washburn Times to be absorbed by the (Cable) County Journal, May 1989.
(WiHi 13 June 1877 - 3 July, 18 Dec. 1880, 15 Jan. - 26 Mar., 2 July 1881 - 14 May 1976, 5 June 1980 - 26 Apr. 1989)

BAYFIELD GAZETTE (w) 1902 - 1903.

BAYFIELD MERCURY (w) 18 Apr. - Oct 1857.

(WiHi 18 Apr. - 11 July, 15 - 22 Aug. 5 Sept. 1857.)

BAYFIELD PRESS (w) 21 Sept. 1859 - Spring 1861

BAYFIELD PRESS (w) 1866 - 1868[?].

BAYFIELD PRESS (w) 13 Oct. 1870 - 15 June 1872.

Succeeded by the Ashland Press.
(WiHi Complete)

BAYFIELD PRESS (1877 - 1882), see Bayfield County Press.

BAYFIELD PROGRESS (w) 3 June 1909 - 30 Mar 1927.

(WiHi Complete)

RED CLIFF NEWSLETTER (m) Oct. 1974 - July 1994.

Native American Newspaper
(WiHi Complete)

Cable

COUNTY JOURNAL (w) 7 May 1984 to date.

Title varies: South County Journal, 1984 - Oct. 1988.
(WiHi Complete)

Iron River

HOMESTEAD, see Iron River Pioneer.

IRON RIVER PIONEER (w) 29 Sept. 1894 - 26 Apr. 1989.

Title varies: Homestead, 1894 - Apr. 1895.
Merged with the Washburn Times and the (Bayfield) Bayfield County Press to be absorbed by the (Cable) County Journal.
(WiHi Complete)

IRON RIVER TIMES (1892 - 1895), see Washburn Times.

Port Wing

THE CONNECTION (m) Jan. 1994 to date.

Title varies: South Shore Boxholder Connection, 1994 - Apr. 1996; South Shore Connection, May 1996 - Dec. 1998.
(WiHi May 1995 to date)

Washburn

BAYFIELD COUNTY JOURNAL, see under Bayfield.

WASHBURN-BAYFIELD COUNTY TIMES, see Washburn Times.

WASHBURN BEE (w) 14 Mar. 1885 - 10 Sept. 1887.

(WiHi Complete)

WASHBURN BULLETIN (w) Apr. - Oct. 1892.

CHEQUAMEGON SUN (w) Dec. 1976 - 1978[?]

(WiHi 1 - 15 Dec. 1977)

WASHBURN ITEMIZER (w) 16 Oct. 1884 - 25 Dec. 1896.

Merged with the Washburn News to form the Washburn News and Itemizer.
(WiHi 23 Oct. 1884 - 9 Oct. 1890)

WASHBURN NEWS AND ITEMIZER (w) 1 Oct. 1887 - 5 July 1924.

Title varies: Washburn News, 1887 - Dec. 1896.
Merged with the Washburn Times
(WiHi 1 Oct. 1887 - 28 Dec. 1903, 3 Jan. 1908 - 29 Dec. 1935)

WASHBURN TIMES (w) 10 Mar. 1892 - 26 Apr. 1989.

Place of publication varies: Iron River, 1892 - Apr. 1895.
Title varies: Iron River Times, 1892 - Apr. 1895; Washburn-Bayfield County Times, May 1976 - May 1980.
Merged with the (Bayfield) Bayfield County Press and the Iron River Pioneer to be absorbed by the (Cable) County Journal.
(WiHi 10 Mar., 2 June 1892 - 1 Mar., 27 Sept. 1894 - 26 Apr. 1989)