Resorters travel by boat to N. Lake Leelanau

  • The children of East Leland summer resorters dressed up as pirates as one of their activities at Camp Oshibwa. Photo courtesy of Leelanau Historical Museum
    The children of East Leland summer resorters dressed up as pirates as one of their activities at Camp Oshibwa. Photo courtesy of Leelanau Historical Museum
This is part two of a brief history of East Leland and Porter’s Landing by Mark Smith, Omena Historical Society.Mostly they arrived at their final destination by boat, at Porter’s Landing, the public access that still exists at the end of Horn Road. Large steamboats were able to dock there, such as the SS Leelanau coming from Fouch’s Landing at the south end of South Lake Leelanau, piloted by…

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