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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 Bay de Noquet Lumber Company Waste Burner was an industrial waste burner located at the south end of River Street in Nahma Township, Michigan.It was built to burn waste wood and bark from the nearby sawmill; until 2019 it was the only known example of this type of waste burner surviving in Michigan, [3] and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. [1]
Frank J. Cobbs was born in Jackson County, Indiana in 1872, and was adopted by Jonathan W. Cobbs. [3] The Cobbs family soon moved to Cadillac where the elder Cobbs purchased a sawmill and, along with William W. Mitchell, founded the lumbering firm of Cobbs & Mitchell.
(The Center Square) – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently introduced a $3 billion plan to “fix the damn roads,” her 2018 gubernatorial campaign promise. The Mi Road Ahead plan, announced ...
The total number of saw mills in Michigan was approximated to be 665. [5] The lumber industry in Michigan boomed following the Civil War as the economy generally rebounded and urban areas in the north, particularly Detroit and Chicago, entered phases of dramatic expansion. Production reached peak levels from the 1870s to the 1890s.
The buildings were constructed of milled lumber and tarpaper. [4] In October 1908, a devastating forest fire, exacerbated by poor lumbering methods, destroyed much of the remaining timber. [5] By 1912, all 70,000 acres of the Ward estate had been clearcut and there was no more timber for the sawmill. The sawmill was dismantled and sold.
Realizing the potential of the lumber trade, Charles purchased land near White Lake, Michigan, and by early 1838 had opened a sawmill nearby. Mears decided that the then small village of Chicago would be a good market for timber, and he commissioned a lumber sloop to haul lumber from his mill to Chicago.
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 ...