 By the early 1890s, John Smith had taken up a claim at Piedmont; John Hanson and his wife Mary Laeger Hanson had homesteaded near the head of the Lyre River.From 1889 through the 1920s, there was a settlement named Gettysburg on the east side of the mouth of the river.Gettysburg was founded as a logging town by Robert Getty and had a population of 65 in 1910.