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The Wylie White Sox baseball team from the Wylie Cooperage factory. Louis Schroeter is seated on the ground at the far left. Willis Pennington is in a chair at far left.

Wylie Cooperage factory on Duck Lake.

A view of the factory from the lake. Note the railroad tressle and the raft with a winch for lifting sunken logs. The trees on the left are now in the Interlochen State Park.
The Wylie Cooperage factory and the small company village of Wylie were…

1. Manistee and Northeastern Railroad train tracks through the pines (present State Park).
2. Hotel Pennington launch headed to Peninsula Point on Green lake.
3. Betsie River Bridge at the inlet to Green Lake.
4. Logs at the Wylie cooperage
5.…

Cooks in the mess hall kitchen. The Wylie Cooperage factory and the small company village of Wylie were both located on Duck Lake just north of the State Park. They made barrels, between 1897 and about 1914,of the hard woods remaining after the…

Tug boat "Betsie" on Duck Lake at the Wylie Cooperage.

Wylie baseball team. Each community had a team and played the neighboring town's team.
The Wylie Cooperage factory and the small company village of Wylie were both located on Duck Lake just north of the State Park. They made barrels, between 1897…

Pete Fisher was the superintendant of the Wylie Cooperage factory in the company village of Wylie. This was his house. Later, when this picture was taken, it was owned by Louis and Mary Schroeter. The building has been torn down.

Assembly Hall of Camp Penn Loch on Duck Lake. This was previously the mess hall for the Wylie Cooperage before the factory burned about 1914. Camp Pennloch was a private boys camp run by Willis Pennington.

Black and white photograph of workers at the Wylie Cooperage Company factory with barrel staves. The cooperage operated from 1897 to 1914, and made barrels from the hardwood that remained after lumbering ended in the Pine forests. The Manistee &…