Grace Harbor Wanigan
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Wanigan on Carp Lake, Grace Harbor, Michigan. On left is Buff Morrow, Native American; Tom McArthur, center; Charlie Bunton, right. A wanigan is a small hut built on a log raft. It was used in various ways, most often as a kitchen, which followed a log drive to feed the crew. The wanigan in the photograph is towing a raft of logs gathered on the lake. Carp Lake is now known as Black Mallard Lake.
- Notes
- Grace or Grace Harbor is in Bearinger Township, Presque Isle County, Michigan. It was a village on Hammond Bay, Lake Huron, and was founded in 1893 by the Grace Lumber Lumber Company of Detroit. Rawson Wager was the village's first postmaster instated in December 1894. The post office operated until 1942.
- Date of Original
- c1900
- Dimensions
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Width: 4702 px
Height: 3285 px
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 4702px
Image Height: 3285px
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Morrow, Buff ; McArthur, Tom ; Bunton, Charlie
- Collection
- Grace Harbor Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Grace Harbor:
Michigan, United States
Latitude: 45.5515366759821 Longitude: -84.1279790576172
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Grace Harbor:
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to United States law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Special Collections, Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
- Contact
- Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public LibraryEmail:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
Agency street/mail address:211 N. First Ave.
Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
(989)356-6188
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