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    Match to Trelfa number 4-2061.

    Trelfa number 4-114

    This captured WWI German submarine was part of a traveling exhibit in 1919. It is docked in this image at the Thunder Bay Milling Company dock in the Thunder Bay River. A WWI tank was also on exhibit

    Logs were easier to transport during the winter on ice roads. A sprinkler wagon sprinkled water on the road to freeze into an ice path for the horse teams to pull a log sled.

    Several loads of logs on rail beds connected to a tractor train engine connecting to the main line for transportation out of the woods.

    The Thunder Bay River at Alpena showing the lumber mills and stacks of lumber along the river banks.

    The Thunder Bay River at Alpena showing stacks of lumber along the river's edge waiting for transport.

    The Alpena Excelsior Company plant was located on Woodward Avenue near West Miller. It was incorporated in 1892 with George Shannon as president, J.C. Walker as secretary, F.W. Fletcher as Treasurer,

    The Alpena Excelsior Company plant was located on Woodward Avenue near West Miller. It was incorporated in 1892 with George Shannon as president, J.C. Walker as secretary, F.W. Fletcher as Treasurer,

   

   

    Fletcher lumber camp log loader moving logs to the BCGA (Boyne City, Gaylord, Alpena) railroad line.

    Fletcher lumber camp?

    Much hardwood was used to make tool handles.

    "Island Mill and Lumber, looking West"

    Much hardwood was cut after most of the white pine had disappeared. Maple and oak, especially, were used for flooring and trim. The doors and trim at the Alpena City Hall are good examples, which wer

    145 Water Street.

    Excelsior is wood shavings used as packing material.

    A boom was a "pen" of logs chained together into which the logs were sorted according to the mill to which they were being sent. A boom house was a shelter for boom workers.

    This is now called Rotary Island Mill Park.