This week in Hayward
Nothing on Hayward’s calendar for the next two weeks yet.
About Hayward
Hayward grew up around a sawmill: in the winter of 1878 Anthony Judson Hayward walked the frozen Namekagon River looking for a mill site, and once the railroad arrived in 1880 his North Wisconsin Lumber Company dammed the river and built 'the Big Mill.' The village was laid out in 1883, the same year it became the seat of the new Sawyer County, and long before that the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe had lived, fished and gathered wild rice on the lakes nearby. When the pine ran out and the Big Mill burned in 1922, the lakes and woods turned Hayward into a place people visit. Today it is famous for muskie fishing and the giant fiberglass muskie at the Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame, where you can climb up into the fish's mouth. Families come for the American Birkebeiner ski race each February, the Lumberjack World Championships, the Honor the Earth Pow Wow and the fall festival downtown.