Name/Title
Jar of Hemlock BarkEntry/Object ID
2024.04.37Description
Cylindrical glass gar with metal cap, secured with magic tape, containing dried hemlock bark chips.Context
Used in a museum exhibit about the lumbering era. Local hemlock trees were harvested for their bark that was used to tan leather.Collection
1835 Logging and Lumbering, TanneriesCataloged By
Winthers, SallyAcquisition
Accession
2024.04Acquisition Method
Found in CollectionDimensions
Height
7-1/2 inDiameter
3-3/4 inLocation
* Untyped Location
Sec 3E Shelf S18Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Morrison, Stephen A. Jr. 1815-1905, Johnson, O.R. 1815-1895, Morrison Tannery/Johannett & Crosby/ 1833?-1890, C.C. Wallin & Sons, Gerber, Daniel 1820-1890Create Date
July 29, 2024Update Date
August 15, 2025
![Page 36 from "A Twentieth Century History of Allegan County, Michigan" by Dr. Henry F. Thomas. [see 2010.04.01]: The opportunities for tanning brought to Saugatuck one of its most prominent citizens. Stephen A. Morrison came here from Vermont in 1837 to start a tannery, but instead bought the Johonnett & Crosby plant, and later moving it to the south side of the village on the lake, continued its operation for forty or more years.
This was the only tannery in the vicinity for some years. A tannery northeast of Saugatuck, in section 3, was established in 1844 by A. S. Wells and O. R. Johnson, who conducted it until 1854. The Wallins, C. C. Wallin and F. B. Wallin, who came here during the fifties, bought this tannery in section 3, at the little place afterwards called Wallinville, and later bought the tannery established in the early sixties at Douglas by Daniel Gerber.](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/4124/72870030-7a14-11f0-ad60-55f14c49aa70-vUZyU8k.lg@2x.jpg)