Name/Title
Forward Movement Park logsEntry/Object ID
2023.10.354Description
Eight piles of logs line the west-side banks of the Kalamazoo, just upstream from the Chain Ferry crossing. Two men are standing on the ferry and one man is in a rowboat in the foreground. The photo is dated August but the trees are bare.
This image was featured as History Mystery #111 with the question "The west shore ferry landing area was loaded with logs. What is going on here?" and the solution "The year was 1913 and the logs were no doubt awaiting a vessel to carry them away. The rest of the story is lost in history."Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Digital scanSubject Person or Organization
Old Chain Ferry Scows c1836-1947, Chain Ferry Landings, Presbyterian Camp/Camp Gray/Forward Movement Park 1899-2014Context
The April 18, 1913 Commercial Record states "It looks a little like sawmill days in Saugatuck to anyone who would look at the pile of logs across the river just south of the ferry. The Forward Movement Association have had men busy all winter lumbering in the their woods and now have about 115,000 feet of logs ready for the saw besides the quantities of stove wood they have cut."Collection
1835 Logging and Lumbering, 1897 Forward Movement Park, Gray and Presbyterian Camps -2014Cataloged By
Winthers, SallyAcquisition
Accession
2023.10Acquisition Method
Found in CollectionNotes
These photos were published by Jack Sheridan for Commercial Record "History Mystery" features.Location
* Untyped Location
Digital data in CatalogItGeneral Notes
Note
These image(s) were copied from the SDHC photo blog [or the Jack Sheridan drive if that was a superior version] in preparation for updating the SDHC website in 2023.Create Date
November 4, 2023Update Date
July 1, 2024
