Bayfield Fish Hatchery, Salmo, WI (2)

**Bayfield Fish Hatchery** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 81000033, date listed 19810722

 

WI 13

 

Salmo, WI (Bayfield County)

 

The Bayfield Fish Hatchery is located in Bayfield County in northern Wisconsin, two miles southwest of the city of Bayfield. Although the thirty-seven acre hatchery site includes several outbuildings (original and contemporary) and hatching ponds, only the original main building is significant to the nomination.

 

Funds were appropriated by the state legislature in 1895 for the construction of a hatchery at Bayfield, the purpose of which was the propagation of brook and lake trout for planting in the streams of northern Wisconsin and for commercial lake trout fishing in Lake Superior. Completed in 1897, the hatchery, third built under the authorization of the State Conservation Commission, originally included 502 acres of land, eight buildings, 40 ponds, 1500 feet of raceway and 6700 feet of pipeline. (1)

 

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/81000033.pdf

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