The Knapp, Stout, and Co. shingle mill at Cedar Falls was serviced by the Milwaukee short line that currently forms the outer portion of Wolske Bay. The rail bed is well submerged from view since the spring waters rose in 1958. Almost right on the bed have been placed some fish cribs over the years.
Cedar Falls is outside the city limits of Menomonie but has an older dam compared to the Menomonie dam. While it has had some repair work in the last couple decades it is over 100 years old. Unlike the Wissota dam that garnered much media attention for the age, the Cedar Falls dam seems to be just there.
Of course, the Tainter Lake area is outside the limits of the city of Menomonie and unlike Lake Menomin, doesn't fit into the commercialization imagery that downtown or Main Street, or UW Stout can use.
Tainter Lake is the sandy, swampy, wetland, that was beaten into a farming land. Then the farm was flooded with the creation of the Moore Farm Lake, Lake Colfax, Lake Menomonie, or Lake Tainter. The new lake didn't seem as planned as Lake Menomin, under the direction of Senator Stout, which did have conservancy and "park" recreation use intended as part of design. No, Tainter Lake didn't seem to have a consistent name for decades.
Let's take a look at the Cedar Falls dam, the creator of Tainter Lake:
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