Editing Vilas County, Wisconsin (section)

===Logging era===
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]].<ref name="auto">History of Northern Wisconsin Illustrated. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881.</ref> Many dams were built throughout the county to assist loggers as they sent their timber downstream to the lumber and paper mills in the Wisconsin River valley.<ref name="county"/>  After the county was founded in 1893 and logging ceased to be the primary industry in the area, migrants seeking other forms of employment settled in the county. These later immigrants primarily came from Germany, Ireland and Poland though some came from other parts of the United States as well.<ref name="auto"/>