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Ice storm damage in Thompsonville.

Photo of Kenneth and Mona (Bossingham) Ramsay

Pictures of sunken logs being recovered from the Betsie River in Benzie county. The process was called "deadheading" and started following the building of the Thompsonville power dam and continued into the 1940's when most of the logs were gone.

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 the…