There are many stories about the pole.
#1 story you here is that there used to be a barber shop on the mainland there and that pole indidcated to boaters where to go. Of course I beleive this story to be false.
#2 (The true story?) They used to float logs on Winni (for what I don't know, maybe building/paper mill?) One day when they floated the logs through that narrow channel where the barbers pole now stands, one end of a log sunk and hung up in rocks standing it on end. All the logs around it rubbed most of the bark off in a striped pattern. What was left was a log standing on end witha spiral striped pattern on it (like a barbers pole). It stayed that way for a little while and when it eventually fell it was replaced with a wodden pole painted to look like a barbers pole. Now a plastic pole with faded paint on it.
Any corrections on my misinformation welcome. This is what I heard and I don't remember where I heard it.
