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Hannah Lay Grist Mill between Union & Cass on Boardman River

The Boardman River, Hannah Lay grist mill, the library and part of 6th Street.
Boardman and Sixthboard, On "Marvelous Monday" the HCTC presents this colorful view of the Boardman River sometime between 1905 and 1926. The picture look southeast…

The outlets for water used to run the old Hannah Lay Grist (or Flour) mill between Cass and Union streets on the river. The mill burned in 1926 but these remain.

Overview of Traverse City looking east from the tower of Central School.

Hannah Park on 6th Street. The Union Street bridge and the Hannah-Lay grist mill are in the background.

Interior of the Hannah Lay Flour Mill. Sacks of flour and equipment are shown.

A tintyle overview photo taken from a hill on Randolph Street looking east. The attached image is reversed as most tintypes depict the mirror image of reality.

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…

Floyd Clinch, President of the Hannah Lay Company gave a dinner with entertainment at the Eagles Hall to employees of the Traverse City State Bank, Hannah Lay store and Flour Mill, the Traverse City Refrigerator Company and the Michigan Transit…

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.)