Glen Haven Wayside: Lumber Piled High

Lumber Piled High interpretive panel.

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When D. H. Day invested his life savings and more to purchase the sawmill on Glen Lake, he wasn't content to do business as usual. He modernized. He improved. He converted a two-and-a-quarter mile, horse drawn, wooden tramway to the dock into a narrow-gauge railroad, thereby building a faster and more profitable mill operation.

Day developed Glen Haven as a company town to provide for the needs of lumberjacks, dock workers, and farm hands. He purchased and ran a company store, improved the roads, and even brought in the telegraph.
Rejecting the practice of clear-cutting, Day left young trees behind to grow and seed, thus introducing the practice of reforestation to northern Michigan.