W. R. Stafford Planing Mill Site

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W. R. Stafford Planing Mill Site
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W.R. Stafford Planing Mill Site, 1985
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LocationHuron St., Port Hope, Michigan
Coordinates 43°56′29″N82°42′27″W / 43.94139°N 82.70750°W / 43.94139; -82.70750 Coordinates: 43°56′29″N82°42′27″W / 43.94139°N 82.70750°W / 43.94139; -82.70750
Arealess than one acre
Built1882 (1882)
MPS Port Hope MPS
NRHP reference # 87001960 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 20, 1987

The W. R. Stafford Planing Mill Site was the site of a mill, located on Huron Street in Port Hope, Michigan. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]

Port Hope, Michigan Village in Michigan, United States

Port Hope is a village in Huron County of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 267 at the 2010 census. The village is within Rubicon Township.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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History

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Planing Mill Site in 2018

After the disastrous forest fire of 1881, a planing mill building was constructed at this site. Planing mill opened in about 1882. The mill building contained a planing mill on the first floor and sash and door factory run by Duncan McKenzie and George Drury on the second floor. The planing mill and associated factory were major employers in the area at the end of the 19th century, as the lumbering trade wound down. The operation closed in the mid-1890s. In 1905, the building was leased to Gustave Marquardt and to use a pea mill, where peas were cleaned and sacked. In 1912, disease destroyed the local pea crop, and the business shut down. The mill building was eventually torn down, and as of 1987, only the chimney was left. [2] As of 2017, the chimney was also gone.

Description

The planing mill site sits in the woods near the shore of Lake Huron. It contains the foundations of the old mill, measuring about 80 feet by 36 feet. The site also contained at one time a 50-foot high chimney, measuring six feet six inches by six feet at the base. The chimney was constructed of red brick and tapered upward. [2]

Lake Huron one of the Great Lakes of North America

Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. Hydrologically, it comprises the easterly portion of Lake Michigan–Huron, having the same surface elevation as its westerly counterpart, to which it is connected by the 5-mile-wide (8.0 km), 20-fathom-deep Straits of Mackinac. It is shared on the north and east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south and west by the state of Michigan in the United States. The name of the lake is derived from early French explorers who named it for the Huron people inhabiting the region. The Huronian glaciation was named due to evidence collected from Lake Huron region. The northern parts of the lake include the North Channel and Georgian Bay. Across the lake to the southwest is Saginaw Bay. The main inlet is the St. Marys River, and the main outlet is the St. Clair River.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 R. O. Christensen (September 1987), National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Stafford, W. R., Planing Mill Site