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Fred O. Menier Fish Sign

2024.04.03

SignsCommercial businesses1845 Fishing, commercialSDHC Exhibits

Winthers, Sally

14 in

36 in

Staircase OSH

Menier, Fred c1850s-1900s

Cultural/Historical Context

Menier’s Fish Shop original site: Cook Dock, Butler Street at Culver Street collection: Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society Collection Captain Fred Menier was a Saugatuck fisherman who operated a Mackinac-type sailing boat with steam engine power. He opened a fish shop along the Saugatuck docks in 1894—selling “fresh fish every day.” The Menier family lived at 711 Butler Street. Menier was killed in a boating accident. Source: Signs of the Times: Old Signs from the Saugatuck & Douglas Area, A Collaborative Exhibition Presented by the Saugatuck Center for the Arts and the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, 2008

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