Williams, Salsich and Co. the logging company that developed Star Lake established a hotel on a high point above the east end of the north bay of the lake. It is clear from contemporary articles in the Minocqua Times that the hotel opened in the summer of 1895. The first reference to the hotel in the Times was on June 5, 1895, and said, "The new hotel is fast reaning completion and will soon be ready to receive guests." Times The following week the Times stated, "Geo. Powell, traveling salesman for Williams Salsich & Co. is here [Star Lake]. He will have charge of the new hotel when it opens, which will be soon." Times

The hotel had opened, under the name "Waldheim" by July 17, because the Minocqua Times lists registered guests by that date. Times July 24, 1895

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+++FOSTER REMEMBERS

"Frances [Foster] was raised on Fish Trap Lake in Boulder Junction. Her paternal grandmother was a widow living in Minnesota when her son, Jesse [Foster], came to Star Lake to work in a lumber camp. He was just 14 years of age. He liked the ara, moved his mother and brothers, Frank [Foster] and Harold there. His mother found work cooking at the local hotel. Eventually she became postmaster at the two of Oxley, and later became the first postmaster in Boulder Junction." ##1496 Looking Back: Sonny and Frances Remember, Lakeland Times, June 20, 2008.## The local hotel would have been the Hotel Waldheim.