1914: The first airplane landed on north Tomahawk Avenue, there being no other runway then.Bradley, future mayor and adopted son of the city's founder, brought the first automobile to the town. 1897: The first high school class graduates among the graduates was Margaret McBride, who achieved prominence as a vocalist in New York City.Īmong the events highlighting Tomahawk's history since that time are: In the 10 years after the first construction camps were built, Tomahawk grew rapidly, boasting many stores, a three-story hotel, many saw mills, a paper mill, and service via three railroads. The town site was platted in 1887, with lots sold in Milwaukee that summer. The dam was a large capital investment for the era, and was one of the largest in the world when it was completed. The Tomahawk Land and Boom Company was owned 51 percent by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul railroad, and 49 percent by the Land, Log and Lumber Company (Bradley and his partners). Bradley, who is thus considered to be the principal founder of Tomahawk. The company leading the effort was the Tomahawk Land and Boom Company, headed by William H. Tomahawk traditionally traces its founding to the establishment of the construction camps for a dam and the railroad in 1886. The location was variously known as Bouchard's Station or The Forks, short for Forks of the Wisconsin. By 1880 several families were living close to Tomahawk-Wisconsin river confluence, including owning property within the present city limits of Tomahawk. Logging activity from the Tomahawk River upstream began about 1860 and surged after the Civil War. By that time most Ojibwe were living permanently on the reservations. Some Ojibwe received their annuity payments in Wausau until the payments ended in 1874. Even after this treaty, the region was largely public domain land and the treaties allowed the Ojibwe usufructory rights to hunt, fish, gather wild rice and make maple sugar. The 1854 Treaty of La Pointe created the reservations at Lac du Flambeau, Lac Courte Oreilles and Bad River.
There was a village just north of the modern Tomahawk, in the vicinity of modern Bradley, and a village on Skanawan Creek. After the 1837 cession, the practical situation changed only slightly: the federal survey teams had not arrived yet, logging activity was still light, and Ojibwe continued to actively occupy the general area. Before 1837, the land where Tomahawk is now situated belonged to the Ojibwe, who traded actively with fur traders such as the American Fur Company and the Northwest Company.
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