INDEX TO: MICHIGAN LUMBER TOWNS (Photos) ********************************************************************** August 27 2014 Copyright c2014 by the Huron Shores Genealogical Society (HSGS), c/o the Robert J Parks Public Library, 6010 N Skeel Ave, Oscoda MI 48750, phone 989-739-9581, home page www.HuronShoresGS.org. Resource Title: Michigan's Lumbertowns: Lumbermen & Laborer's in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, /1878-1905, by Jeremy W Kilar, c1990, 361p, indexed. Indexing, editing and publication was done by Society Member Alonzo J Sherman, Hierarchical Event Codes: ~kw Keywords, Places, Things & Activity, not a Person ~orx Other Than Vital Records for a Person, misc mention ~phopn Photograph, Portrait, Person Named Person ~phoz Photograph, Places, Things or Activities, not a Person) Copy of Pages. Copy of each page is $4.00 post paid. Send your order and check to the above address. Compiler: Alonzo J Sherman, HSGS Database Manager. ********************************************************************** Name/Keywords Event Page ********************************************************************** Bay City. "Catacombs. /1884 had 65 saloons or hotels selling liquor in this 4 block area ~kw ~phoz 163d Bay City. Advertisements for Polish businesses in south end /1901 ~kw ~phoz 163g Bay City. Brewery, horse delivery wagons ~kw ~phoz 163e Bay City. Fire station, volunteers & horse teams ~kw ~phoz 163e Bay City. Hotels along 6th St severed loggers, mill workers, sailors, fisherman & salesmen. ~kw ~phoz 163c Bay City. Largest woodenware factory /1880s: wash tubs, wooden churns, butter, lard, water water and tobacco pails (20,000 pails daily) ~kw ~phoz 163f Bay City. Lumbermen homes along Center Ave ~kw ~phoz 163g Bay City. Many sawmill near workers residences and children brought their father lunches at noontime ~kw ~phoz 163c Bay City. Police force /1888. Policemen were instructed to "lick the tar" out of any ruffian ~kw ~phoz 163d Bay City. Water front /1909 20 years after lumber era, abandoned log pilings & drying docks ~kw ~phoz 163f East Saginaw, A more respectable drinking establishment catering to German merchants & workers, ~kw ~phoz 075f East Saginaw. German settlers in their garden /1900s ~kw ~phoz 075e East Saginaw. The Jefferson saloon & lunch counter ~kw ~phoz 075f East Saginaw. Wooden water barrels on roof of sawmills for dire protection. Also firms hired fire boats in the river to fight fires. ~kw ~phoz 075d Harrison. Lumbering Camp, over 300 loggers mid-/1880s, mess barrels of pork, flour, dried beef, & lard ~kw ~phoz 249a Muskegon River. Shanty boys /1808s, wanigans living quarters for men on spring log drives ~kw ~phoz 249a Muskegon River. Spring logs drives 1865-1890 ~kw ~phoz 249b Muskegon, Fire in Webster MI /1887, Fire in 1891 destroyed 17 city blocks & 250 buildings ~kw ~phoz 249f Muskegon, Hackley, Charles ~orx ~phopn 249g Muskegon. Boarding house & saloon ~kw ~phoz 249h Muskegon. Boarding houses were dirty & poorly maintained ~kw ~phoz 249g Muskegon. Booming Company's sorting grounds, using pike poles, logs later floated to saw mills ~kw ~phoz 249b Muskegon. Fire department, most important city service of lumbering towns ~kw ~phoz 249f Muskegon. Hackley's house, cost $50,000 ~kw ~phoz 249g Muskegon. Hume, Thomas ~orx ~phopn 249h Muskegon. Inspectors or tallymen, checked & Measured all lumber loaded or unloaded on sawmill docks ~kw ~phoz 249d Muskegon. Medium sized Sawmill & crew /1888, sawed 17 million board feet yearly ~kw ~phoz 249c Muskegon. Members of Carpenters & Joiners Union Local #100, Labor Day 1899 ~kw ~phoz 249h Muskegon. Mill built 1886 with crew ~kw ~phoz 249c Muskegon. Temperance Reform Opera House /1897 built by lumberman result of the red ribbon temperance crusade /1877. Later became Grand Theater, then Elks Temple ~kw ~phoz 249e Muskegon. Town boosterism became town strategy in the post-white pine era ~kw ~phoz 249d Saginaw. 19th Century. Lumber yards employed Polish & German immigrates. Black workers in 19th century worked in sawmills as fireman tending coal boiler fires ~kw ~phoz 075e Saginaw. Last sawmill in /1950s ~kw ~phoz 075c Saginaw. Maple Floor factory /1900 ~kw ~phoz 075d Saginaw. Saw Mill, 1st on Saginaw River /1835, also 1st to used steam, /1885 ~kw ~phoz 075b Saginaw. Logs rafted from logging pens stored in Mill pond before sawing ~kw ~phoz 075c Tittabawassee. Booming ground, 12 mile long, over 500 men employed ~kw ~phoz 075a Tittabawassee. Ferry boat crossing /1870s, Freeland ~kw ~phoz 075a ********************************************************************** MIGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed MIGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the MIGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. **********************************************************************