Booming - Lumbering History
Publication
Two tabloid pages clipped from the Grand Rapids Press with an article about the lumbering or logging era. Also an article titled "A town's the same by any name" by Patricia Hillary about the roots of some Michigan town's names. [For example, Allegan is claimed to be named after the Alleghen Indian tribe.]
2023.18.17
When rivers ran with wood and rustlers meant no good
Describes the work of "shanty boys" — the term lumbering men prefered according the the article's author George F. Dechow. — with details about the lumbering process, a typical breakfast and the use of log marks to foil thieves.
1835 Logging and Lumbering
Winthers, Sally
Newspaper
Aug 1, 1982
154 Newspapers
09/13/2023
09/13/2023