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Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 8:13 PM

Getting to Northport by land …water

Getting to Northport by land …water
First train into Northport June 28, 1903. Courtesy photo

The following is an excerpt from “A History of Leelanau Township” by the Leelanau Township Historical Writers Group.

It is continued from the April 16 paper.

There was a plank road from where the Happy House Tavern is now to the lake shore where W.T. Gill had built a sawmill and a pier for his lumber boat the Alice M. Gill.

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