Location: Glen Arbor, MI

Lumber Mill Near Glen ArborThis was a lumber mill near Sleeping Bear Dunes prior to 1925 at Glen Arbor.

Photo Info: [Jane Giffin Collection]


Notes

Information from Marc Boudreau... The saw mill depicted was the C.C. McCarthy saw mill located along the shore of the extreme northwest corner of Little Glen Lake.

The mill was the southern terminus of a two mile long narrow gauge railway that ran up to the shipping dock at Glen Haven, on Lake Michigan just west of Glen Arbor. The mill and dock served to provide wood, as fuel, for the early steamers passing through the Manitou Passage. The mill, railway, and town of Glen Haven was later purchased by D.H. Day, a prominent local figure until his death in 1928, and is currently part of Sleeping Bear National Park. Incidentally, the railroad ROW is still clearly seen on Google Maps. Here's a link to information about Glen Haven and the railway: Click Here.
 
The railway's locomotive, the D.B. Harrington, survives in Port Huron, MI, having originally served on Port Huron and Northwestern Railroad. Here's an interesting history on the locomotive. Click Here.

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Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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