About 1878, John Leathem and Thomas Smith came to this area from Door County, Wisconsin, cut the towering pines along the west shore of Green Bay, and built a saw mill to make lumber and shingles. At times more than 400 men worked in the mill and winter logging camps, and a busy village called Leathemport soon grew up around these operations. The village had a boarding house, small homes for workers' families, a company-owned store, storage sheds, a large dock, and anchorage in the bay for large ships. During the sailing season, schooners and barges loaded lumber and shingles there for shipment to markets around the Great Lakes, while numerous vessels made Green Bay a busy highway of the era. After a decade of logging, the forest was nearly depleted, and Leathem and Smith sold their business to William Horn, who operated the mill for a few more years. Horn renamed the area Arthur Bay in memory of his young son Arthur, who drowned after falling off the Leathemport Dock. In 1891, Charles L. Bailey bought Horn's land and established a successful commercial fishery on the property.