Originally LaPointe County
Renamed Bayfield in 1866
Established: 1845
County Seat: Washburn
Parent: Ashland County

Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1879
Deaths 1870
Marriages 1869

Bayfield County Register of Deeds:
P. O. Box 813
Washburn, WI 54891-9464
Telephone: (715) 373-6119

LA POINTE.

From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855

pg. 81

Lies on Lake Superior, and embraces a territory about 54 miles square, and the group of islands in the Lake known as the Twelve Aportles [sic Apostles]. The land is not yet surveyed, and of course not in market. But little is known of the country. The County Seat is on the south-west extremity of Madeline Island, which gives its name to the village and county-"The Point.". La Pointe village is the oldest settlement of the State, not excepting Green Bay. It is the best fishing ground on the whole Lake for trout, siscoette, and white fish, more than a thousand barrels of which are annually packed at this place.