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Lumbering was one of the fist nationally-significant industries to transpire in the Alpena area after fishing. The timber harvest began in southern Michigan and Ohio, and as more timber was needed to construct major cities such as Chicago, resources depleted rapidly. This led to the logging boom in Northeast Michigan.
Oct 2, 2015 · In his letter, William provides a wonderful description of his life and his work in the logging industry of Alpena, Michigan. To give you a little background, William is about 36 years old, living with his wife Sarah (Miller) Faught and their two sons; Francis and Philip. Based on another letter that was found and previous research, we know ...
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WHITE PINE LOGGING: A BACKGROUND. The earliest lumbering in Michigan was done by the French in order to build forts, fur-trading, posts and missions. The British, and later the Americans, used Michigan’s hardwoods to build merchant and war ships. Beginning about 1855, white pine became the most desired tree species by the lumber industry of ...
Attracted by the vast stands of timber, the many rivers that could be harnessed to power sawmills, and the fine gill-net fishing available in Thunder Bay, settlers arrived here in the 1830s. By 1858 the lumber industry was underway, and it continued to dominate Alpena's economy until surpassed by the cement industry in the early twentieth century. Logging peaked in the 1880s, when Alpena's ...
Farms must cover the rural tracts, factories busy the people in town, commerce supply both country and city. Such is the social and industrial problem of the Great Northern Swamp, and such its ...
- Rollin Lynde Hartt
The historic port city of Alpena is nestled between a vast emerald forest and a clear blue bay. Fishing and Lumbering. Founded in 1871, Alpena began as an early commercial fishing port and soon grew to be one of the nation’s most profitable lumber harvesting locations. Lumber camps dotted the region and logs were floated down the Thunder Bay ...
Alpena’s commercial fishing, lumbering, cement, and block machine manufacturing once boasted of being the largest in their industries, as was the 1920 Alpena Garment Factory that closed in 1940.
