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Hickory, Dickory, Dock: The Ghost Lumber Ports of Lake Michigan
Hickory, Dickory, Dock: The Ghost Lumber Ports of Lake Michigan
In the last half of the 1800s entrepreneurs and businessmen constructed dozens of privately-funded “bridge piers” along the western shores of Lake Michigan. At these piers, Wisconsin’s forests were exchanged for manufac-tured goods and new settlers. The piers and their associated general stores and lumber mills became seeds around which busy shipping hubs, villages, and…