Ferry landing and shack, east side
Photograph
Simmons negative number 694 and 696
Index text:
694 0/1 Saugatuck - ferry 10/1944 Chain ferry at landing, fall
695 0/1 Saugatuck - ferry 8/1944 Chain ferry crossing river
696 0/2 Saugatuck - ferry 1947 Ferry building at east landing
From photographic negatives created by William R. Simmons, editor of the Commercial Record newspaper between 1941 and 1961.
More information may be in the 2001 SDHS book "Off the Record"
Kit Lane's note, "696 small building that stood at east side ferry landing where the ferryman sold eggs and potatoes in the old days."
2022.21.694
Chain Ferry Landings
East Shore Ferry Shack Cappy Brittain [who rowed the ferry] was the J. P. and would hold court in the shack. - Jack Gage
William (Bill) Simmons
Winthers, Sally
194 Simmons Negatives
Simmons, William "Bill" R. 1890/1-1966Myers, Jay D. 1856-1928Brittain, Leonard Spaulding "Cappy" 1880-1964
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