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Log piles at the pond at Gibbs Mill, 1897. Located in Mayfield, (Mich.). In 1866 George Neal and Lucas Knight, being millwrights, built the Dam across the Mayfield Creek and erected a sawmill nearby run by water power. A cousin of Lucus Knight,…

Addie (Sargent) Gibbs and James L. Gibbs, undated. Married in 1883 in Wisconsin. James Gibbs, of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, was a brother to Lorraine K. Gibbs. Came to Michigan in 1872.

Miss Edith M. Gibbs, undated. Daughter of Lorraine K and Mary Amelia (Humphrey) Gibbs.

Ardelia Barbara Knight Gibbs, undated. Wife of Benjamin L. Gibbs. Harold Gibbs' grandmother.

Claire and wife, Ada (Muckey) Kingsley, undated.

Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Gibbs and Family, undated.
Lorraine K. and Mary Gibbs and children. Harry, Ethel, Edith, Roy. Mary Gibbs not in picture (died).

Gibb Brothers Big Red Mill in Mayfield, (Mich.), undated. Mill built in 1884. Photograph shows workers and children. William Gibbs, Hollas Fabberer, Wayne Knight, Harold Gibbs, Cris Gibbs, Roy McKeage, Charles Welch, Sherm boys and others.

Gibbs and Knight office at mill in Mayfield, (Mich.) in 1906.

March 24, 1913, at Mayfield, (Mich.). The Dam went out and John Hawthorne was killed. Picture includes the destruction of Road bridge North of power plant.

Gibbs Brothers in 1884 built a Grist Mill and for a while the miller was Lucas Knight.