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Title
Gestner Log Saw Mill
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Sawmills

Subject
Lumbering

Item Number
AF01a157

Relation
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

Description
Photograph of Robert Gerstner who ran a sawmill for many years at Carey's Spur, north of Randville in Sagola Township. In 1913 Gerstner build a log home here which was destroyed by fire March 31, 1924.

Gestner Log Saw Mill

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