Boulder Junction, Vilas County, Wisconsin

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Boulder Junction, Vilas County, Wisconsin

About eleven miles up County Highway K from Star Lake is the town of Boulder Junction. For a few years early in the 20th century there was passenger rail service from Star Lake to Boulder Junction, but some time before WWI Boulder Junction got passenger service via Arbor Vitae. Freight service continued via Star Lake, and extended further north from Boulder Junction.

It is a small town, home to a number of small stores, including two small grocery stores. It has the usual complement of tourist shops, and since about the 1960's has been somewhat of an arts and crafts center. A series of wood carvers knows as Grandpa, Uncle Dick, and finally Cousin Willy, produces some very handsome small woodcarvings sold in the area.

The Boulder Junction Area Historical Society is quite active. They have produced a series of post card reproductions of pictures of the area. They have refurbished an old caboose and have a small museum, located near the caboose, completed in 2008.

A much more detailed survey of the town and its history will eventually be provided here. In the meantime the reader is referred to several good local histories in the Bibliography below.

Evidently the present location of the town was once a railroad stop known as Rice Lake. See Historical Notes from the Historical Society Newsletter

Charles P. Forbes
January 26, 2008
© 2008 Charles P. Forbes
Church [Community Church of Boulder Junction, Evangelical Covenant Church] Celebrates 75th Anniversary; Boulder Junction Parish Formed in 1928., Vilas County News-Review, August 13, 2003, p. 5B, Eagle River, 2003. View Full Record
Boudreau, Dorothy, Boulder Junction, Vilas County Chamer of Commerce: Vilas County Headwaters to Wisconsin, 1998, p. 3, Eagle River, 1998. View Full Record
Boudreau, Dorothy, Boulder Junction: The Way We Were, 1960 to 2000, Boulder Jct., 2006. View Full Record
Boulder Junction Chamber of Commerce, Boulder Junction, Boulder Junction, n.d.. View Full Record
Doolittle, Shirley, Boulder Junction: The Early Yares: 1880s to 1950s, Boulder Junction, 1996. View Full Record
Helminiak, Jon, Course Set for Manito-Wish The History, Boulder Jct., WI, 1994. View Full Record
Johnson, Deborah, ed., 2004 Local History Awards [Boulder Junction], Columns, Wis Historical Society's Bimonthly Newsletter, Vol. 26, #1, Jan/Feb, 2005, p. 6, Madison, 2005. View Full Record
Laabs, Joyce, Collection of Northwoods Nostalgia, A, From the Pages of the Lakeland Times, Vol. 1 (of 2), Sun Prairie, WI, 1978. View Full Record
Scrobell, Daniel, Early Times: The Early History of the Minocqua Area as Seen Through the Pages of the "Minocqua Times" Newspaper, Minocqua, 1988. View Full Record
St. Anne's Parish, Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, Badger Playground, Wisconsin's Finest Vacationland, Boulder Junction, 1961. View Full Record
Secondary References
America's North Woods, Special Feature, Country Living, V.6 #6 June 1983 p.39 ff, New York, 1983. View Full Record
Best of the Northwoods, The, Boulder Junction, 1992. View Full Record
Allen, Terese, \wisconsin Food Festivals, Amherst, WI, 1995. View Full Record
Bates, John, River Life [Manitowish River], Mercer, 2001. View Full Record
Boulder Junction Area Historical Society, Boulder Junction Area Historical Society Summer 2007, BJAHS [Newsletter] Summer 2007, Boulder Junction, 2007. View Full Record
Boulder Junction Area Historical Society, Newsletter, Boulder Junction, 2008. View Full Record
BSA, Northern Wisconsin High Adventure Base, Field Guide, Boulder Junction, n.d.. View Full Record
Dahlquist, Elmer and Jim Samrazil, Historical Notes II and III, Boulder Junction Area Historical Society Newsletter, Winter 2008, Boulder Junction, 2008. View Full Record View Full Text
Gilkey, Mrs. George, Kate Newcomb, Chase, et al: Famous Wisconsin Women, Madison, 1971. View Full Record
Hunzicker, David, Little Rice Lake Site, Wis. Archeologist, 83:1, Jan-June 2002, pp. 45-62., Milwaukee, 2002. View Full Record
Jorgensen, Arthur, Eagle Scout Camp Celebrates 25th Anniversary., Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, 20:10, Oct. 1955, pp. 20-24 & back cover., Madison, 1955. View Full Record
Laabs, Joyce, Collection of Northwoods Nostalgia, A, From the Pages of the Lakeland Times, Vol. 2 (of 2), Sun Prairie, WI, 1980. View Full Record
Laabs, Joyce, Paul Brenner: Sharing His Memories of Boulder Junction, Lakeland Times, August 15, 2003, p. 2, Minocqua, 2002. View Full Record
Scrobell, Daniel, New Rail Line to Trout Lake, Scrobell, Early Times, 1988; Orig. Minocqua Times August 3, 1905, Minocqua, 1988. View Full Record
Trinity Lutheran Church, Book of Favorite Recipes, Shawnee Mission, KS, 1979. View Full Record
Wolter, Joan, et al., Northwoods Kitchen's, Boulder Jct, Presque Isle, Sayner, 1982. View Full Record
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