Log jam near Quinnesec Falls

Log Jam on Upper or Lower Quinnesec Falls, Near Quinnesec, Breitung Township, Dickinson County, Michigan, April 23, 1899: Maude Gee (standing) and Jamie Gee, Jeffie Whitehead and John Bush posed for the photographer on a huge log jam near either the Upper or Lower Quinnesec Falls of the Menominee River on April 23, 1899. An item in the April 14, 1892 edition of Iron Mountain’s The Iron Range, noted: SCORES of people have visited Quinnesec falls the past week to see the immense log jam there, which extended from the Hydraulic works to within a short distance of the railroad bridge. A force of men were employed blasting the ice and breaking the jam, and succeeded in starting the logs last Tuesday. It is estimated that there were 6,000,000 feet in the jam. [Dr. John Newkirk], Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Abstract/Description: Log Jam on Upper or Lower Quinnesec Falls, Near Quinnesec, Breitung Township, Dickinson County, Michigan, April 23, 1899: Maude Gee (standing) and Jamie Gee, Jeffie Whitehead and John Bush posed for the photographer on a huge log jam near either the Upper or Lower Quinnesec Falls of the Menominee River on April 23, 1899. An item in the April 14, 1892 edition of Iron Mountain’s The Iron Range, noted: SCORES of people have visited Quinnesec falls the past week to see the immense log jam there, which extended from the Hydraulic works to within a short distance of the railroad bridge. A force of men were employed blasting the ice and breaking the jam, and succeeded in starting the logs last Tuesday. It is estimated that there were 6,000,000 feet in the jam. [Dr. John Newkirk]
Subject(s): Logging
Portraits, Group
Quinnesec Falls (Mich.)
Date Created: 1899
Title: Log jam near Quinnesec Falls.
Name(s): Dickinson County Library, contributor
Cummings, William John, contributor
Newkirk, John, contributor
Superiorland Library Cooperative, contributor
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1899
Physical Form: photographs
Extent: 1 item
Abstract/Description: Log Jam on Upper or Lower Quinnesec Falls, Near Quinnesec, Breitung Township, Dickinson County, Michigan, April 23, 1899: Maude Gee (standing) and Jamie Gee, Jeffie Whitehead and John Bush posed for the photographer on a huge log jam near either the Upper or Lower Quinnesec Falls of the Menominee River on April 23, 1899. An item in the April 14, 1892 edition of Iron Mountain’s The Iron Range, noted: SCORES of people have visited Quinnesec falls the past week to see the immense log jam there, which extended from the Hydraulic works to within a short distance of the railroad bridge. A force of men were employed blasting the ice and breaking the jam, and succeeded in starting the logs last Tuesday. It is estimated that there were 6,000,000 feet in the jam. [Dr. John Newkirk]
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Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Subject(s): Logging
Portraits, Group
Quinnesec Falls (Mich.)
Held by: Dickinson County Library
Restrictions on Access: No Copyright (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
Is Part Of: Dickinson County Library photographs. Identifier: SLC-005
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