Clinton F Woolsey Memorial Airport - Northport, MI
Posted by: kJfishman
N 45° 09.747 W 085° 34.263
16T E 612304 N 5001989
Clinton F Woolsey Memorial Airport - Northport, MI
Waymark Code: WMEPTJ
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 06/24/2012
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In 1934 the WPA constructed Clinton F Woolsey Memorial Airport. The link below gives a detailed story about Clinton F Woolsey and how this airport came to be.
According to: (
visit link) "In 1934, during the Great Depression, 85-year-old Byron Woolsey wanted to ensure that Clinton would always be remembered. He donated 80 acres of his land to Leelanau Township on the condition it be used as an airport in honor of his son. The township added another 120 acres.
A Works Progress Administration crew converted the farm, as part of a "New Deal" public works project, into a long grassy runway and expanded Woolsey's creamery/milk transfer station into a terminal.