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The visitor's center and other facilities are staffed between May and October. Pathways are lined with exhibits with descriptive signs allowing visitors to learn about the history of the logging industry in Michigan. The monument overlooks Cooke Dam Pond and Horseshoe Island on the Au Sable river which was a major logging thoroughfare. [2]
The museum is located in two replica logging camp buildings and has outdoor exhibits of logging equipment and an enclosed steam-powered sawmill that is operated during summer events. The museum is administered by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources' Michigan History Museum. [6]
Journal of Forest History 26.4 (1982): 176–183. online; Williams, Michael. Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography (Cambridge UP, 1989), a major scholarly study; Wilson, Donald A. Logging and lumbering in Maine (Arcadia Publishing, 2001) online. Wood, Richard G. A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1820-1861 (U of Maine Press, 1971 ...
Genuine Overpack logging wheels In front of museum at Manistee, Michigan Silas C. Overpack (March 20, 1841 – March 2, 1927) was a blacksmith, wheelwright, and businessman. He owned a shop (around 1868) in downtown Manistee, Michigan , at 87 Pine Street, called S.C. Overpack Wagon, Carriage and Blacksmith Shop and is associated with the ...
In 1893, Ward began construction of the Frederic & Charlevoix RR Co., a logging railroad interconnected at Frederic, Michigan with the Michigan Central Railroad Mackinac Division and extended 42.66 miles to East Jordan, Michigan, formerly known as South Arm on the shores of Lake Charlevoix, formerly known as Pine Lake. In 1897, the last three ...
Deep Woods Frontier: A History of Logging in Northern Michigan (1989). Kirk, Gordon W. Jr. The promise of American life: social mobility in a nineteenth-century immigrant community, Holland, Michigan, 1847–1894 (1978) online; Klunder, Willard Carl. Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation (1996). MacNaughton, A. Douglas.
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The Mason and Oceana Railroad (M&O) was a short (35 mi or 56 km) common carrier, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge logging railroad in the U.S. state of Michigan. [1] Organized in 1887 and in operation from 1887 until 1909, it served the counties of Mason and Oceana in the northwestern quarter of Michigan's Lower Peninsula in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.