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McBain began as a settlement around a sawmill in Riverside Township, founded by John McBain in 1887. A station on the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railway opened on August 27, 1888 and a post office with the name Owens opened on September 10, 1888. The post office was renamed McBain on September 17, 1889.
The Discovery Park includes approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) of the eponymous creek's watercourse as it flows downhill toward Lake Huron, but not the wetland. The creek dam and sawmill (c. 1790) were rebuilt in 1984; the sawmill was restored in part for the 2007 season. The British Workshop (c. 1820) was rebuilt around 1994 on the site of the ...
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimensional lumber). The "portable" sawmill is simple to operate. The log lies flat on a steel bed, and the ...
Both Saginaw and East Saginaw quickly became a hub for railroad transportation in addition to ships on the Saginaw River. Also on the east side of the river was Florece, another sawmill settlement, that was eventually absorbed into Saginaw. [9] Lumber production peaked by the early 1870s and had virtually disappeared by the end of the 19th century.
The Meridian Boundary Fire burned 8,586 acres near Grayling, Michigan in 2010.. The U.S. state of Michigan has been the site of several major wildfires.The worst of these were in the lumbering era of the late-1800s when lumbering practices permitted the buildup of large slash piles and altered forest growth patterns which may have contributed to size of the wildfires.
It was a fishing village first inhabited by French trappers and fishermen. It became a lumbering center when the Alger, Smith & Company operated in Black River from 1876 to 1880. Black River became the largest pine timber producer in the world before turning back into a fishing village with the decline of the lumber industry.
Columbiaville is a village in Lapeer County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 702 at the 2020 census. ... New York came to work in the Niver's sawmill ...
Maybee was established as early as 1873 in the southwest part of Exeter Township when the Canada Southern Railway built a railway line through the area. [7] The line was soon transferred to the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, which transported manufactured charcoal and other forest products from Maybee to Detroit in the northeast and Ohio to the south. [8]