White Pine & Red Cedar: From Knapp, Stout & Co. to Stout's Island Lodge

An island in northern Wisconsin's Red Cedar Lake was the epicenter of the 19th Century rush to harvest the vast White Pine forests of the Lake States. At the peak of the frenzy, no lumber company in the world was larger than the legendary Knapp, Stout & Co. of Menomonie, Wisconsin. Company President Frank Stout chose this island as the site for his personal Adirondack-style Great Camp and named it The Island of Happy Days. Now it's a grand summer resort on the National Register, open to the...