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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…

Building the Brown Bridge Dam on the Boardman river.

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…

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.

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 &'

Dam on the Boardman River

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

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 a map of the Boardman River with dams owned by the Boardman River Electric Light and Power Company, 1916.

Black and white photograph of building the Brown Bridge dam on the Boardman river, 1924. It shows 19 men and the wooden structure of the dam. Lert, Shugart Architectural Interior and landscape Photographer, Traverse City. Photo mounted on 9" x 11"…