WASHBURN, a city of Wisconsin, U.S.A. Pop. (193o) 2,238. It has a fine site on high land above Lake Superior.
Among the manufactures are powder and dynamite, lumber and excelsior. There are brownstone quarries near by. In 1665 Father Allouez established the first French mission in Wisconsin on the shore south of the present city ("La Pointe du Saint Esprit"), and in 1669 it was placed in charge of Father Marquette.
The fur trader, Le Sueur, built a stockaded post here in 1693 ; in 1718 the French erected a fort; and about 182o the American Fur Company established a post in the neighbourhood. The pres ent city (named after Governor C. C. Washburn) was founded about 1879 and chartered in