Explore the history of Elcho, WI.

The Bob-O-Link Roller Rink in Post Lake. It was originally built in 1922 as a dance hall. The domed roof was purchased from the Chicago World’s Fair and added to the building in the 1930’s.

Fischer’s Meat Products. Just a little bit south of Summit Lake stands a little white building that is the home to Fischer's Meat Products. The building along Highway B, the old Highway 45, has been a land mark in our area since the 1940s, but the story of the family that runs the business started long before that.

Concise History of the "Post In The Lake" People and Willard Ackley. The Sokaogon Mole Lake band of the Lake Superior Chippewa reside on the Mole ' Lake Indian reservation next to Rice Lake, (zaaga-i'-gan manoomin) in Forest County in Northeast Wisconsin. It was recorded that some 500 Indian warriors i died during the 1806 Battle of Mole Lake. The battle between the Chippewa and the Sioux was fought over the wild rice bed that exists here. The Ojibway refer to wild rice as “manoomin" meaning the food that grows on the water. Wild rice has always been a staple of the Chippewa diet and is still harvested and processed today, in the traditional way.