Widely known as a tourism hotbed, Bayfield attracts thousands and thousands of visitors every year and now, more and more of those visitors are becoming residents.
"I hadn't even planned on stopping my travels," Dr. Edwin Fissinger said, "but I came over that big hill into Bayfield and I looked at it and I said, 'Wow. I'm going to move here.'"
Fissinger moved to Bayfield only three weeks ago, and on Wednesday celebrated the ribbon cutting of Fissinger Chiropractic.
"People just said we don't have a chiropractor. We need one," Fissinger said.
Fissinger's clinic will be open three days a week and will look to change the model of modern day health care.
"Health care is too expensive," Fissinger said. "It's run by the insurance companies. Doctors don't get to make their own decisions."
Fissinger's chiropractic business is now up and running, but he wasn't the only one to be drawn to Bayfield by its beauty and its small-town charm.
"It's a great community," Demaris Brinton said. "It's varied, surprisingly varied for as small as it is. Lot of support."
Brinton and her husband, Theron O'Connor, opened Apostle Islands Booksellers less than a month ago, but have already been welcomed by the Bayfield community.
"A lot of the local people have come in and we have them signed up on our frequent buyer club because they expect to come back," Brinton said. "They've been very supportive, very complimentary."
Fissinger said the expanding economy in Bayfield is no accident.
"This is a very booming town right now," Fissinger said. "People want to live in Bayfield, so they move here and take a chance. They're saying they want to live in Bayfield so they're going to make it here."
Two more businesses will celebrate their grand opening in Bayfield next week - an architectural firm and a therapeutic horse ranch.
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