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Glen Haven History
Download an Audio Tour of Glen Haven which
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Glen Haven Tour
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The
information in this web site was compiled by Kerry Kelly of the
Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes and edited by Autumn Kelly. It will
also be available as a tour booklet at the Park Bookstore. Some of the
content for this web site and booklet was taken from Sleeping Bear,
Yesterday & Today, by George Weeks, which is available at the Park
Bookstore at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center or at Cottage Bookstore in
Glen Arbor, Michigan. Other sources include research reports and photos
from the National Park Service.
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Welcome to
Glen Haven, the historic logging village on Sleeping Bear Bay, two miles
west of Glen Arbor, Michigan. The village is part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes
National Lakeshore, and many of the buildings have been restored to their
condition in the early 1900s.
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| Step back in time
by walking through the village and imagining what Glen Haven might have been
like when it was the center of D. H. Day’s lumber business. Look out on Lake
Michigan and the old dock pilings and listen to the waves lap up on the
beach as you imagine a steamship, with a capacity for 2,000 passengers,
docked at the pier. Listen to the activity of 30 men loading cord wood and
cargo, while passengers head down the dirt road to the Sleeping Bear Inn.
Who would ever have believed that this sleepy little village was once a
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Walk down to the beach by the Cannery, and I’ll introduce you to Daniel
Shauger, who came here in 1865, just about the time the dock and the first
buildings were erected in what is now Glen Haven. He can take you through
the village and tell you what it was like when he first arrived and how it
has changed over the years.
Daniel
Shauger
I came to
Michigan with my brother John and our brother-in-law Ebenezer Cobb in 1865
from Plymouth, Wisconsin. We were looking for work and a place to
homestead. We had heard that there were jobs for lumberjacks and lots of
prime land, so we hopped a steamer in Milwaukee headed for Buffalo. When we
got to the Manitou Passage, the ship docked to take on cord wood. Steamers
burned 100 to 300 full cords of wood on the trip from Chicago to Buffalo,
New York.
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to see when we got off the boat and walked down the dock. A new boarding
house had just been built near the dock, called the Sleeping Bear Inn. The
folks there said they were looking for strong young fellows like us to cut
cord wood and load it on the steamers, so we decided to stay for a while to
see if there might be some good land to homestead. We worked for a couple of
years before we were able to get some land on what they now call Shauger
Hill over by the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive. By 1867 we were able to bring
our parents and six brothers and sisters here to join us. |
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Continue your tour of Glen Haven on the following
pages
Glen Haven Dock
Sleeping Bear Inn
Wooding & Lumber Operations
General Store
Blacksmith Shop
Schoolhouse
Glen Haven Shipping
Canning Company
Other Topics
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