Obscure

The village was one of roughly 100 camps set up in northern Wisconsin where timber was felled, trimmed, and stamped before being sent down the Chippewa and Mississippi Rivers.

The main portion of the K-12 school was constructed and later expanded in 2005 to include a tech ed department.

Blue Hills Friends of Scouting purchased the facility which was no longer is use when the district was consolidated with Chetek in 2010.

The facility became an incubator to six businesses, offering free rent and utilities for the first year!

The Behring Global Educational Foundation donates the internationally significant Blackhawk Collection of taxidermy specimens and artifacts for charitable and educational purposes. 

In 1997, Behring made the single biggest gift to the Smithsonian that it ever received with a $20 million donation.

The facility is being transformed into the Obscure Education & Event Center, preserving extraordinary collections while creating new opportunities for education, tourism, and economic development.