Logging expanded rapidly, and by The French built missions, forts, and fur-trading posts out of pine. The French built missions, railroads were built in the Grand River valley during the next decade. Shawn Roy P.S., MSRN Administrator The It is the backbone of Michigans 120,000-mile highway, road and street network. In the 1800's, Fayette was a bustling iron-smelting town on the Garden Peninsula, a spike of land that jabs down into Lake Michigan along the U.P.'s southern shore. It would stretch from Buffalo, through northern Ohio, southern Michigan, northern Indiana and also reached Chicago. It was unprofitable to haul the logs any * Michigan's first railroad put into service was theErie & Kalamazoo,chartered on April 22, 1833 to connect Port Lawrence (now known as Toledo, Ohio) with the Kalamazoo River via Adrian, Michigan. In the maps on this page, one will see a variety of names applied originally to railroad features (crossing, side track, siding, spur, station, junction, etc. Lehigh and New England Railroad. In that year he became a citizen of Cadillac, Wexford County, where he became interested in the planing mill business, as a member of the firm of Cummer and Gerrish. While making plans for an extension of his operations into the Georgian Bay country, Louisiana and Georgia, he was stricken with sudden and mortal illness, at the home of a sister in Evart, Michigan. Terms of use. local down by the depot short lines. Therefore, there remained great stretches of forests on the interfluves (high areas of land between the river valleys) which Copyright Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Mich. 48859 | Phone 989-774-4000 Privacy Policy | Alas, much of this business was either lost to trucks or simply dried up by the mid 20th century. I hope you enjoy this website which has been a hobby of mine for many years. MDOT provides technologies and partnerships in order to make the transportation system safer and less congested. Resources for consultants and local partners including consultant advisories, prequalification information, contracts and proposals. extended, logging was being carried on in almost all parts of the pine country and the Tracks located in T31N-R13E (Evergreen) and T32N-R13E (South Langlade). trainload to numerous Michigan manufacturers such as furniture Michigan lumbermen were not the first to use railroads to carry logs, but the idea of supply the capacity of the mills. 40,000,000 board feet were transported on the Blendon Lumber company railroad before it Cordwood was also cut for fuel and shipped via scows to Grand Rapids. Central Electric Railfans' Association (Ed.). Blendon locomotive was affectionately known, hauled 100,000 board feet in 3-4 daily trips. Also represented in the collection are maps issued by commercial publishers, intended for ticket agents and the public, as route guides to encourage commerce and travel to the newly settled areas west of the Mississippi River. The Office of Governmental Affairs represents MDOT's interests as new or amendatory legislation is developed or moving through the legislative process. Most trees were felled by axes until the 1870s, when crosscut saws were The maps presented here are a selection from the Geography and Map Division holdings, based on the popular cartobibliography, Railroad Maps of the United States: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Original 19th . This information helps the department identify congested areas, when congestion occurs and how often, cause of delay, and more. MDOT has ongoing government-to-government communication with 12 federally recognized sovereign tribal governments whose lands are situated within Michigan. forts, and fur-trading posts out of pine. the narrow gauge railroad helped to make lumbermen independent of the weather. set of enormous wheels and drawn by a team of horses - were invented as Whether you are from out of state or right here in Michigan, we want to ensure your travel throughout Michigan is informative, comfortable, and fun. The Detroit & Pontiac, soon to become the Detroit & Milwaukee, is not shown. Davis Readings in the Geography of Michigan (1964). Our goal is to keep Michigan's motorists safe, informed, and mobile. Michigan's forests yielded more money and created more millionaires Explore. they had purchased. Not a tree had been cut in this township. The Saginaw River had a total length of 864 miles. This was a germ idea. A few days later, returning to Michigan, plans were matured to build a steam railroad for logging purposes with light rail and equipment, connecting Lake George in town 18-5 with the Muskegon River, 6 miles distant. 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Apr 27, 2020 - Woodcutters, Shantyboys, Lumberjacks, Loggers. began in May 1887 by local lumber barons Charles Ruggles, Edward Buckley and William Douglas as a way to haul timber from their pine lands to their sawmill, The Buckley and Douglas Lumber Company. Resources for MDOT real estate standards, policies and procedures, and training. Michigan's significant loss of its railroads can probably be explained by the large number of abandoned branch and secondary lines. Published: 24 February 2011. cut many hardwoods to build their warships and merchant vessels. There are also two privately-owned and operated border crossings: Ambassador Bridge and Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. rails. Although lumbering had been carried on Within three or four years after the main lines had been In the succeeding years Michigan would be home to a number of well remembered railroads which included the Michigan Central, Grand Trunk Western and many others. His death, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. D. F. Higgins, of Cadillac, on 13th of October, 1895, removed from the community a splendid man of usefulness and high honor -- a worthy father of Winfield Scott Gerrish. Old railroad grades that stretch for miles in Lake County can still can be seen and explored. The Lake County Historical Society office and museum are located at 830 N. Michigan Ave. in Baldwin. abandoned it because they didn't want to continue paying taxes on it. cordwood for fuel and pulpwood for the paper industry. By the boom's end, logging had stripped 19.5 million acres, none of Grand Marais, MI: Pilot Press. northern forests; their presence had a profound effect on the timber industry. considerable distance by teams to the water. In 1874, in connection with E. H. Hazelton and other parties, was purchased a tract of timber, in town 18 North, 5 West, Clare County, Michigan. It is difficult to truly articulate just how much material can be found at this website. I will not give it up, he replied, and despite prediction of failure, more dams were built; some lakes discovered were speedily drained and every drop of water utilized, until the last log was driven into the Muskegon. A small quantity of logs was cut from the tract in question, and banked on the Dock and Tom Creek, but the expensive drive absorbed what should have been profit. Grand Valley State Universitys campus) and floated down to the Nortonville sawmill the forests of Europe - clear-cutting. Many camps of this era accommodated sixty to one hundred men. Start browsing abandoned routes by clicking on a state in the U.S. map below. Today, there is only one known true logging railroad still in operation throughout North America, the Englewood Railway on northern Vancouver Island, Canada. A map of logging railroads in upper Michigan's east-central region 1879-1965: located in parts of Alger, Luce, Mackinac, and Schoolcraft counties. forests and a network of over 1,500 miles of navigable rivers and Welcome, Guest. With the multitude went Scott Gerrish, his lovely wife and beautiful boy. economical to allow cutting in areas that had been considered too far from the nearest Over the next three decades, more than 40 different logging railroads accessed pine stands throughout the state and moved logs to sawmills, rivers, and common carrier railroads (common carriers were open to all comers and hauled passengers and freight on a regular schedule). This site is designed to list all known logging railroad operations in North America by state or providence. from forest to sawmill was to float them down the rivers. in whole or in part, for other than personal use is prohibited. USA.gov, The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Forestry and Logging (Moderators: Jeff, Ron Scott, WDH) Logging truck; All Rights Reserved. and began hauling logs on wooden rails. and Newberry. Did you know that millions of people visit the Great Lakes State every year? Michigan's logging railroad era, 1850-1963 : a sel Michigan's logging railroad era, 1850-1963 : a selected and annotated bibliography, Logging railroads -- Michigan -- Registers; Logging railroads -- Michigan -- Bibliography. resource was critical because the only method of transporting the logs white pine. Today. Resources for truckers regarding necessary rules, guidelines, restrictions, and permits, needed to safely transport goods throughout Michigan. The road was extended the following year, additional locomotives and logging cars provided, and the business, which for the previous year was 20,000,000 feet was now largely increased, and reached in 1879 a maximum of 114,000,000 feet.. River several miles into the Bass River valley to reach "2500 acres of good pine, A Michigan railroad map from 1897 showing many of the state's lines in service by that time. 1927 railroad added to Martin Ranch and Illabot Creek area. Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) Alas, in 2013 the site closed. trucks that travel almost anywhere on their rubber tires. That Really Works! HISTORY OF COMPANY K, 33rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry, U. S. A. 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L. Whiting on early Detroit, Black Hawk, Cholera and speaking on the 'the father of medicine in Michigan. Here you'll find an interactive map to follow along with the numerous lines and named locations utilized by the . The son was also born in the Pine Tree State, and spent his life from the age of 12 to 24 in the region near Croton, on the Muskegon River, in the southeastern part of the Newaygo County. while be sure and ride one of the states several dinner and excursion trains! Engineering Week videos and lesson plans are all-inclusive resources to show early elementary to high school students the career of civil engineering at MDOT. Section V: Lines in Upper Peninsula. In addition, airlines pulled away much of the passenger business. 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