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  • Tags: Benzie County

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Black and white postcard of Schenkel farm oat field near Bendon, Michigan, 1915.

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Black and white photograph of Wallin sleigh ride, Benzie County, c. 1920. 8 people are being pulled in a sleigh by a tractor. There are 4 men standing (two on the tractor), plus the tractor driver.

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Color postcard of banked logs along the Platte River near Honor, MI. These were probably for the Guelph mill that made caskets.

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Black and white photograph of Plat map book drawing of Bendon, Michigan, 1915. Bendon is in Inland Township, Benzie County.

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Cherryland Grocery in Inland twp. on U.S. 31, in Benzie County. "Art's Service Station"

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Marce Keillor and Arvid Tesaker. Arvid was the Soil Conservation District agent for Traverse City, Gaylord, and Benzie County for 43 years and retired in 1975. Marce was on the Benzie County Soil Conservation Board.

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Twenty-one Men, standing with shovels, pick axes, and axes at a CCC camp. The envelope that it came in stated that it was a camp in Beulah on Crystal Lake, with Stan Rae as the foreman, the accuracy of these labels is unknown.

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The Rainbow Lunch and Putney Cabins near Honor, MI on U.S. 31.

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A view of the village.
Thompsonville is in Benzie Co. about 10 miles S.W. of Karlin. It had lumber mills as long as the timber held out and was one of the first towns in the area (about 1912) to have electric lighting from a dam and generator on theā€¦
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