Great Lakes Shipbuilding in Caseville
In the late 1800’s Caseville Michigan was a booming town. This included large ship building.
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In the late 1800’s Caseville Michigan was a booming town. This included large ship building.
Mysterious holes are found by kids on the north side of Rush Lake State Game Area. Years later they are determined to be from the 1800s quarry operations.
It’s becoming commonplace. I’m researching something and encounter an entirely new and interesting story I’ve never heard before. In this case, this is the story …
The times of greatest shipbuilding in the Great Lakes region was during the lumbering era. From 1839 until the early 1890s, the virgin old-growth Michigan forests were cut down to produce lumber for growing towns and cities in the lower Great Lakes. Michigan was the nation’s leading lumber producer from 1869 until about 1900. The only way to transport finished milled lumber from the shore side mills in the Great Lakes was by ship.
Caseville’s Palmer Motel in 1963 was being marketed as a good vacation spot to get away from the hectic rush of the modern world.
Today the building remains as a reminder of the rustic era of tourism in Caseville.
Drive In theaters remained popular until VHS movies took hold of the market in the 1980’s. Yet one still remains in the Thumb. We look back.
Point of Pines Hotel and Summer Resort operated in Port Austin Michigan from 1898 until about 1935. Mary Buttars ran the resort until her death in 1911.
the Harbor Beach News from July 1902. It highlights a fare war between the railroads and the steamships on excursions between Buffalo, New York, and Detroit, Michigan. It signals a sign that it’s the beginning of the end of steamship dominance on the Great Lakes in favor of railroads.