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Once a thriving hub of pine lumbering, Emerson later became a fishing hamlet. One mile south of the mouth of the Tahquamenon River, immortalized in Longfellow's poem “Hiawatha,” the settlement overlooks Whitefish Bay. The village was founded by Kurt Emerson, a lumberman from the Saginaw Bay area, in the 1880's. Emerson erected a sawmill and in 1884 sold his establishment to the Chesbrough Lumber Company. Milling and lumbering operations ceased in 1912, when commercial fishing became the community's economic bulwark.
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