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Construction of the Brown Bridge Dam for electrical generation
Image #6 is of William Love on left and J. Arthur Garland on right

Dam on the Boardman River

Wooden structure of Brown Bridge dam, 13 men, 3 wheelbarrows. Lert, Shugart Architectural interior and landscape. Photo - TC - . Photo mounted on 9" x 11" cardboard. Photo is 5" x &'

13 men and 4 horses, during construction of Brown Bridge dam., Shugart, Archit. interior and Landscape - Photographer -TC - Photo mounted on 9"x x11" cardboard.

Building of the first hydro electric power dam on the Boardman River, known as the "Boardman Dam". The Boardman River Electric Light and Power company had been formed by L.K. Gibbs and others to provide electric power to Traverse City. Up to this…

Building the Brown Bridge Dam on the Boardman river.

Overview of downtown Traverse City and the Boardman river taken from the Hannah Lay flour mill. Note the logs being funneled to the sluceway to by pass the dam on their way to the sawmill downstream at the bay. Taken in the 1800's, and looks…

Black and white photograph of workers building the Brown Bridge dam on the Boardman River, with 2 horses, 6 men, and a wagon in the water, 1924.

Black and white photograph of the walking bridge over the Boardman River at Hannah Park. (Note the sluceway used to float logs to the sawmill downstream after the installation of the Hannah Lay Grist mill dam just up stream.)

Old grist mill dam looking east on the Boardman River, Cass St. bridge in background.