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==History== The area that is now Sawyer County was contested between the [[Dakota people|Dakota]] and [[Ojibwe]] peoples in the 18th century. Oral histories tell that the Ojibwes defeated the Dakotas locally in the Battle of the Horse Fly on the Upper Chippewa River in the 1790s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Lore |url=https://www.townofroundlakewi.org/wp-content/uploads/Comprehensive_Plan/AppendixA.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.townofroundlakewi.org/wp-content/uploads/Comprehensive_Plan/AppendixA.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live |website=Town of Round Lake |access-date=July 11, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Oral History Documentation: The Battle of the Horsefly (circa 1795) |url=http://www.cfla.us/History/horsefly.html |publisher=Chippewa Flowage Lake Association |access-date=July 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027200046/http://www.cfla.us/History/horsefly.html |archive-date=October 27, 2019 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> By this time, [[Lac Courte Oreilles]] had become the site of an Ojibwe village. Ojibwes allowed trader [[Michel Cadotte]] to build a [[fur trade|fur-trading]] outpost in the area in 1800.<ref name="whc">{{Cite book| publisher = State Historical Society of Wisconsin| volume = 19| others = Reuben Gold Thwaites (ed.)| title = Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin| location = Madison| date = 1910| page = 171}}</ref> The United States acquired the region from the Ojibwe Nation in the [[Treaty of St. Peters#1837 Treaty of St. Peters|1837 Treaty of St. Peters]], but the Ojibwes retained the right to hunt and fish on treaty territory. Ojibwe people successfully negotiated to establish the permanent [[Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians|Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation]] in the [[Treaty of La Pointe#1854 Treaty of La Pointe|1854 Treaty of La Pointe]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa |url=https://dpi.wi.gov/amind/tribalnationswi/lco |publisher=Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction |access-date=July 11, 2022 |language=en |date=September 1, 2017}}</ref> The county is named for [[Philetus Sawyer]], a [[New England]] man who represented [[Wisconsin]] in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] and [[U.S. Senate]] in the 19th century.<ref>{{cite news|title=Winnebago Took Its Name from an Indian Tribe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/915335/wisconsin_county_names/|newspaper=The Post-Crescent|date=December 28, 1963|page=14|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = August 25, 2014 }} {{Open access}}</ref> Logging began in the late 1850s. Loggers came from [[Cortland County, New York]], [[Carroll County, New Hampshire]], [[Orange County, Vermont]], and [[Down East]] [[Maine]] in what is now [[Washington County, Maine]] and [[Hancock County, Maine]]. These were "[[Yankee]]" migrants, that is to say they were descended from the [[English American|English]] [[Puritans]] who had settled New England during the 1600s. They were mostly members of the [[Congregational church|Congregational Church]].<ref>History of Education in Sawyer County, Wisconsin by J. G. Adams (M.E. Granger, 1902)</ref> Sawyer County was created in 1883 and organized in 1885.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/WI_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|title=Wisconsin: Individual County Chronologies|website=Wisconsin Atlas of Historical County Boundaries|publisher=[[Newberry Library|The Newberry Library]]|date=2007|access-date=August 15, 2015|archive-date=April 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414132220/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/WI_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the 1890s immigrants came from a variety of countries such as Germany, Norway, Poland, Ireland and Sweden.
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