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TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionDwight Cutler and Hunter Savidge established the Cutler and Savidge Lumber Company in 1858. They had...
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TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Camp #1
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Camp (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionAt the time this photograph was taken, this camp was one of three owned by the Cutler and Savidge Lu...
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TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Camp #2
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Camp (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionOne of three camps owned at the time by the Cutler and Savidge Lumber Company, its loggers felled th...
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TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe mill, owned by Dwight Cutler and Hunter Savidge, and later by Cutler and William Savidge, was on...
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TitleWyman, Buswell Lumber Mill
Date1870
SubjectWyman, Buswell Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionCharles E. Wyman and Henry W. Buswell began operating a sawmill in 1864 and built the structure show...
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TitleBatchellor, Slaaght and Shippey Lumber Mill
Date1870
SubjectBatchellor, Slaaght and Shippey Lumber Mill (Ferrysburg, Mich.)
DescriptionThis sawmill was built in 1867 by John W. Hopkins and Colonel William Ferry II, then sold to the Chi...
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TitleFerry and Sons Saw Mill
Date1860
SubjectFerry and Sons Saw Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe area’s first functioning sawmill, the mill was built in 1836 at the foot of Columbus Stre...
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TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe Cutler and Savidge Lumber Company owned several mills in Grand Haven, Ferrysburg and Spring Lake...
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TitleEmlaw, Boyce and Storr Mill
Date1867
SubjectEmlaw, Boyce and Storr Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThis photograph was taken the year the sawmill opened on the north bank of the South Channel in Gran...
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TitleBoyden Mill Shipping
Date1878
SubjectBoyden Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe former Ridell Mill was converted into a shingle mill by Charles Boyden. Three years later, Healy...
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TitleBoyden Shingle Mill
Date1880
SubjectBoyden Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionLocated on the south side of the South Channel between Second and Third Streets, the mill had some 2...
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TitleCutler & Savidge Lumber Camp #2, Fistfight
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Camp (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionAt the time of this photograph, Cutler and Savidge had three camps supplying timber to mills in Gran...
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TitleCutler & Savidge Lumber Camp #3
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Camp (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe Cutler and Savidge Lumber Company had three lumber camps in 1894, cutting timber to supply its m...
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TitleCutler & Savidge Lumber Company
Date1880
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThis business operated from 1858 until 1904 and this photograph would have been taken around the tim...
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TitleCutler & Savidge Lumber Mill
Date1874
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionAt the time of this photograph, the business was processing 50,000,000 board feet of lumber per year...
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TitleFirst Lumber Mill
Date1865
SubjectLumber trade -- Michigan -- Grand Haven
DescriptionThis is probably the mill built in Grand Haven in 1836 by Canadians William Butts and William Hathaw...
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TitleSaw Mill on Beechtree St.
Date1890
SubjectSawmills -- Michigan -- Grand Haven
DescriptionBlack and white photograph the sawmill located on Beechtree St. on the Grand River, Grand Haven, MI.
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