Transportation by water, rail circa 1900

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.

The schooner Harvey Ransom sailed the perimeters of the Leelanau Peninsula, contracting jobs from dock to dock. In spring, 1900, Captain Edgar E. Chase signed a contract to transport wood from the Bingham dock, down t o Carter’s dock in Greilickville, a distance of about 12 miles. Mosier Brothers, with business in Lake Leelanau, Bingham, Glen Arbor and Suttons Bay, had purchased the Harvey Ransom that year.