The village of Bayview was once the terminus for lake steamers bringing lumber and lime from other points on the lake. After the start of World War II Farragut Naval Training Center was built just west of Bayview. The second largest training center in the country, it processed 293,381 sailors in one 15-month period. After the war the center was decommissioned and given to the state of Idaho for a state park. Bayview is currently the site of a US Naval underwater research facility.

The Bozanta Tavern was opened in July, 1907, and became known nationwide as a posh resort and home to socialites from the country. "Bozanta" is an Indian word that means Meeting Place by the Lake.

Logging, lumbering, steamboat and barge operations, ice storage plants, dairying, mining, agriculture, chicken ranching and recreations were some of the major attractions.

And residents, workmen and pleasure seekers depended for transportation first on a stage coach from Coeur d'Alene and later an extension of the electric train line from Coeur d'Alene.

When business was booming in the early days, it was confined primarily to the west lakeshore. Today there are two incorporated villages using the name Hayden. Hayden Lake Village which embraces the busy area of six decades ago, and Hayden Village, which has grown up in recent years along U.S. Highway 95 to the west where many businesses and professions are represented.

Hayden Lake, 2220 feet above sea level, with waters as deep as 400 feet, is three miles wide and seven miles long, and has 45 miles of shoreline, surrounded almost entirely by foothills.

The area first attracted homesteaders in the late 1870's including Matt Hayden, who gave his name to the lake, John Hager and John Hickey.

Hayden homesteaded at the present site of Honeysuckle beach. Hager where Bozanta tavern has been situated for many years, and Hickey at the present near-by Avondale farm.

Other early settlers included Frank Lee, who owned and operated the first steamboat on the lake in 1904, the Hudlow brothers, Robert and Alf, who had the second such boat on the lake, the Frank Thunborg family who homesteaded on the north end of the lake in 1892, and Charlie Porter, who reportedly built the first frame house on the lake. Earlier homes had been built of logs.

Joe Shirts, another of the early day residents, reportedly killed the biggest cougar ever in the area, with old-timers remembering the cat as 11 feet, four inches from tip to tip.

Lumbering and logging operations were flourishing in the area early in the century, the period when much of the virgin timber was cut.

One of several sawmills was on Honeysuckle Beach, operated by Frank and Charles Wood and a Mr. McGee, which later was sold to M. D. Wright where he founded the Atlas Tie Co. This mill was operated by Wright and T. J. Stonestreet until about 1909 when it was moved to its present location, along highway 10, immediately west of Coeur d'Alene. Another mill was operating north of Bozanta Tavern, still another was at Toe Head Point, Victor Harmon had a mill and James Casey operated a stream-driven sawmill as early as 1899.

During the lumbering-logging era there were four steamboats in all operating on the lake, as well as barges, which served as passenger crafts as well as the lumber industry. In addition to the boats of Lee and the Hudlow Bros., a Mr. Skinner had two.

In these long ago boom days, the electric trains made 11 runs daily to Hayden Lake, a connecting railroad ran to the Honeysuckle beach mill and about four miles of track ran to the Rimrock. The train's service was discontinued in 1929.

Attracting many visitors to the area was Bozanta Tavern which was built in 1904 by Homer King with K. K. Kutter of Spokane as designer. It was the first resort in the area and the first proprietor was Dan J. Moore who had under his supervision as many as 50 employes at a time.

The property was sold to the Spokane and Inland Empire railroad in 1907, to the Great Northern in 1924, and to the Coeur d'Alene Country club in 1929.