Muskegon Log Booming Company
N 43° 15.144 W 086° 14.123
16T E 562067 N 4789126
Side street off of Ottawa Street.
Waymark Code: WMPBB8
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 08/03/2015
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Muskegon was the largest center of lumbering on lower Michigan's west coast. From the 1850's to the 1890's an immense amount of timber was floated to this port down the Muskegon River and its tributaries. In 1864 the Muskegon Booming Co. was formed to sort the logs and raft them to the mills. Here at the upper end of Muskegon Lake was the great storage boom where the logs, each identified by its owner's log mark, were sorted into pens as fast as they floated in. They were then chained together into rafts which were towed to the mills by the company's tugboats. In thirty years the company delivered over ten billion board feet of logs.
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