Cornucopia, WI Real Estate

Cornucopia is an unincorporated village in the township of Bell in northern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located on Lake Superior at the northern end of the Bayfield Peninsula, on Highway 13. The town borders the lake at Siskiwit Bay, between Roman's Point and Mawikwe (formerly Squaw) Point. Although the official limits include only the central village, most people living in the town of Bell with Cornucopia mailing addresses consider themselves residents of Cornucopia.

The Ojibwe used the Siskiwit Bay area as a temporary camp and a as stopover on the way to La Pointe. "Siskiwit" comes from an Ojibwe word for a subspecies of Lake trout known in English as a "Fat Trout." A historical marker at the Cornucopia beach tells of the Tragedy of the Siskiwit, an Ojibwe battle with a band of Meskwaki on that location that lead to several deaths and the kidnapping of a chief's son.

The first white settlers in the Siskiwit Bay area were loggers who came at the close of the 19th century. Remnants of this period include abandoned railroad pilings in Siskwit Lake and a legend of stolen gold on Gold Hill at the southeastern edge of the village.

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