The following is an excerpt from “Meet Me At The Dock in Greilickville, Grand Traverse Bay” by author Kathleen Firestone.
Copies of her books are available at local book stores or directly from her.
Greilick’s 36-foot schooner Lake Forest (U15578) had been built in 1869 at Little Sturgeon, Wisconsin, by B. Spears. She had sunk with a load of corn at Hammond Bay, Lake Huron, in 1878, but was raised and repaired. Greilick Brothers bought the schooner in 1880 and may have still owned her when she was based in Charlevoix in 1882. Her home port in 1883-85 was in Milwaukee.
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