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NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8-86) Wisconsin Word Processing Format (Approved 3/87) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Schooner-Barge NOQUEBAY Town of La Pointe Section 8 Page 1 Ashland County, Wi. Summary The NOQUEBAY is a wooden schooner-barge built in 1872 in Trenton, Michigan for the Peshtigo Company, and was lost by fire in 1905 off the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. The NOQUEBAY was principally engaged in hauling lumber to the east and coal to the west. The wreck consists of large intact sections of the hull, bow, starboard side, and port side, along with machinery and numerous smaller, portable artifacts. The site has relatively few modern impacts. Evaluated within the context of schooner-barges, as documented within the multiple property documentation Great Lakes Shipwrecks of Wisconsin, the NOQUEBAY retains integrity of engineering details in the hull, bow, and side structure, along with items of machinery, and material culture. It is being nominated at the statewide level of significance under Criterion C as a representitive example of a schooner-barge, and under Criterion D for its potential to yield information on engineering details and shipboard life aboard schooner-barges. Schooner-Barges and the Lumber Industry The lumbering industry in Wisconsin helped reshape the state's environment and landscape, and provided a livelihood for a great number of people in many parts of the state. By the late 19th century, Wisconsin was one of the leading lumber producing states, and from 1890-1910, it was the state's leading industry (Lusignan 1986) . Initially, the lumber industry was spurred on by the building needs of settlers on the treeless prairies and plains of the Midwest (Fries 1951) . Water transportation, through rivers or the Great Lakes, connected the Wisconsin forests with the east, south, and west. The history of lumbering in the state has been roughly divided between an early period of 1840-1880, and a later, post-1880 period. Prior to the 1840s, lumbering was small scale and mostly for local consumption (Lusignan 1986) . By the 1840s, it surpassed the fur and lead mining industries to become Wisconsin's leading industry. This, and subsequent growth, was due to immigration of people into the Midwest, the growth of industry, and of the railroads (Lusignan 1986) . The lumber industry's success was due in part to the