INDUSTRY · ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
W. R. Stafford Planing Mill Site
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On Huron Street in Port Hope, Michigan, near Lake Huron, this archaeological site preserves the remains of a late nineteenth-century industrial building built after the disastrous forest fire of 1881 and likely opened around 1882. Its first floor housed a planing mill, while Duncan McKenzie and George Drury operated a sash and door factory upstairs. As lumbering declined, the business became an important local employer before closing in the mid-1890s. In 1905 the building was reused as Gustave Marquardt’s pea mill, where peas were cleaned and sacked, until crop disease ended that trade in 1912. Surviving remains include the mill foundations.
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