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Title
Sagola Lumber Company's first sawmill
Creator
Conant & Son

Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Sawmills

Subject
Lumbering

Item Number
AF01a038

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 the Sagola Lumber Company's first sawmill. Note water barrels on the sawmill rooftop in case of fire, and the wire cage on the smokestack to help contain sparks.

Sagola Lumber Company

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