Hayward

Hayward, city, seat (1885) of Sawyer county, northwestern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on the Namekagon River, in a lake region west of Chequamegon National Forest, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Superior. Ojibwa Indians occupied the area when French Canadian fur traders established posts there in the late 18th century. During the 1880s and ’90s it was a major logging centre, and the community—named for Anthony Judson Hayward, a lumber baron who built a...