Historic Point Basse

06/16/2026

https://www.wsaw.com/video/2026/06/15/pioneer-festival-brings-history-life-historic-point-basse/

As the nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day in July, people in Nekoosa are having fun while learning some local history.

06/14/2026

Thank you to everyone who bought a raffle ticket or two for the Raffle Quilt for Historic Point Basse
Congratulations to Beth Shearer on winning the quilt

05/26/2026

Well we have some piggy people who don’t care about using other people’s property and leaving it trashed.
Unfortunately some people ruin it for others
Please pick up after yourselves so others can enjoy the area too
Thank you to the young men who cleaned it up we truly appreciate it!

05/10/2026

Doing it the old fashioned way! Leveling the area around the Wakely house using the grader. The only thing that was missing was the team of horses

05/02/2026

Sorry this took so long to get it out. The Campfire Cooking Class was a huge success again.

04/22/2026

Tonight April 22 at McMillian Library at 6pm in the Multi Purpose room is our HPB Annual Meeting
Starts at 6 pm
With elections, awards, and more.

Speaker is John Berg
topic
From Fur Trade to Timber in "du Haut du l'Onisconsin" 1820 -1860

And we will also have bread pudding with butter sauce...

Hope to see you there.

04/16/2026

Flooding has closed the road and the walking bridge is totally under water

04/04/2026

For those of you fishing and hoping to get that Walleye please note there is no campfires on Historic Point Basse property. I would hate to have to say no fishing on our banks due to a fire!

02/14/2026

Tables are set, food is cooking, everything is ready all we need is you
Happy Valentines Day
Come join us at the Winter Feast tickets are $30 at the door we open at 4pm eat at 5ish

01/31/2026

What a wonderful day on the ice today. We had a lot of help. Thank You for everyone who came out to help us today