A Bit of Old News #2: Bridge Across Lake Puckaway?

Does anyone know anything about a bridge built across the lake in the ninetieth century?   My father-in-law said the old pilings were a good place to fish, but no one else is talking.

From The Appleton Crescent 1854:
"Bridge Across Lake Puckaway -- We learn from the Marquette Mercury that a good and substantial bridge is about to be constructed across Lake Puckaway.  The cost is estimated at from three to four thousand dollars. -- Madison Jour."

A War Department Document from 1866 mentions "the bridge at Marquette" in passing, so it was built, or partially built.

Ice Out?

It seems like the ice will never go out, considering last year was the second earliest ice out on record.  Everyday I look at the latest satellite photos to watch the painfully slow progress.  The photos are fuzzy and it's difficult to see much more than the difference between ice and open water.  However, I have this clear, old aerial photograph of ice going out to help visualize what the lake looks like today.  Technically it is just early ice breaking up, and struggling to form in November 1951, but it makes me happy anyway.

Ice on the East Basin of Lake Puckaway and Fox River November 1951

A Bit of Old News - Duckhunting #1

I've been running through old newspapers and thought I'd occasionally re-print some articles about Puckaway, or Apuckawa, or Puckawa as it is sometimes called.

"W. W. Haseltine, E. J. Pfiffner, and A.E. Morse went down to Puckawa lake the first of the week on a days hunt and succeeded in bagging 42 ducks.  At least that is what they all say, and duck hunters never prevaricate"

Steven's Point Daily Journal November 7, 1885