LAKE IVANHOE ,Wis. --Peter Baker says he will never forget his first ... up a century ago as the first Black-founded community in Wisconsin. Now, a small group of local residents is working ...

After nearly two decades of advocating for historic recognition of his hometown, Peter Baker on Saturday unveiled a marker from the Wisconsin Historical Society recognizing Lake Ivanhoe as the ...

After reading Gonzalez's paper in the early 2000s, Baker started giving speeches about Lake Ivanhoe's history at the Wisconsin Historical Society, museums, schools and local historical societies.

"Wisconsin is famous for its lakes and recreation, outdoor recreation," Baker said. "And so that was really important. And that's what Lake Ivanhoe is."Nearly 100 years after its founding ...

“So he [Gonzalez] reads it over and says, wow this is interesting,” Baker says. Lake Ivanhoe became the subject of Gonzalez’s 1972 master’s thesis “A Black Community in Rural Wisconsin ...

After being away for two years, thousands of sockeye salmon have returned to Baker Lake to mingle at the fish hatchery in Skagit County. "This is essentially a singles bar for salmon," Ryan Blood ...