Mineral lands

MINERAL LANDS IN MICHIGAN
Source:
1.    CHECKLIST  of U.S. Public Documents, 1789-1909…Congress.  See first session, December 3, 1849-September 3, 1850.  Serial #551, Vol. 3.  Report on Mineral Lands in Michigan.  See same session, Serial #571, Vol. 3, (pt. 3, 5)

Mills

MILLS
See Secretary of State Petitions and Recommendations – Int. Improvement.  Walled Lake Steam Mill Company, January 1, 1836.  $25,000 capital in shares Oakland County of $50 each. Recommends William H. Banks, Hiram Buarritt, William Tenney, Alex Trafer and William S. Adams as Directors.
See correspondence Rev. Fred Gray, 1956.
See Detroit Gazette, July 6, August 10, 1821, [...]

Iron Works Monroe County

IRON – MONROE COUNTY – 1820
Detroit Gazette                                IRON WORKS
December 13, 1822
Iron Works.  We are gratified to find that iron ore has been found in sufficient quantity in the country of Monroe, to induce a gentleman from New York to commence working it.  This ore is said to be [...]

Iron Furnaces

Source:
1.     MICHIGAN HISTORY – 11:164-166; in Delta County, 4:461-474; in Gogebic County 6:  331, 332; in Gogebic Range 9:371-377; in Marquette County 3: 251, 252; 5:150-166; 6:306, 307; 11:191-207 views of minesll:  193, 196, 199, 201, 203, 205.  Dunathan, Clint, “Fayette” (December 1951) 41:204.  See also 35:505-6 “Fayette Furnace”
2.     Vertical file:  Iron.  MICHIGAN’S [...]

Grindstones

Source:  Schedule 4, Products of Industry, for Port Austin Township, Huron County.
1870 schedule lists W. H. Cooper and Company as manufacturers of grindstones and whet stones, with a capital stock of $14,000.  Power was 30 h.p. steam operation.  Usual machines were lathes, gang of saws and grinder.  Cooper and Co. used 3 lathes, 20 saws, [...]

Glass Industry

GLASS INDUSTRY (Macomb County, Mount Clemens.)
Source:
1.     Detroit Institute of Arts.  Vol. XXVI, No. 3, 1947.  “Michigan’s earliest glass.”  “In 1835 the Mt. Clemens Glass Works est. by Dr. Ebenizer Hall and his son-in-law, Isaac J. Grovier…”
2.     History of Macomb County.  Leeson, 1884. P530.  “A glass factory was established by Hall and Grover early [...]

Gerber Company, Fremont, MI

Source:
1.  American Business, September 1956.  P14 – Wharton, Don.  “Straining for Success.”

Furniture Industry in Michigan

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics, February 1, 1890..
(entire report devoted to furniture industry)
copy in MHC Library:    HD
5888
.M5
1890

Copper Mining and Discovery

Copper Boulder – See Ontonagon Copper Boulder
GII
B503 old
Indian Affairs.  1836-1865.  Re:  copper mining on Kewenaw peninsula in 1851.
ONTONAGON COPPER BOULDER
Source:
1.    SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE.  Report of the U.S. National Museum for the year ending June 30, 1895.  Pages 1021-1030.  Moore, Charles, The Ontonagon Copper Bowlder in the U.S. National Museum.”
2.    Schoolcraft, H. R. NARRATIVE JOURNAL OF THE [...]

Cooperage

Source:
1.     Hankerson, Fred Putnam.  Cooperage Handbook well illustrated.
2.     Gould, Mary Earle.  Early American Wooden Ware and Other Kitchen Utensils.
3.     VanWagenen, Jared Jr. The Golden Age of Homespun.  P. 106-7
4.     Mercer, Dr. Henry C.  Ancient Carpenter’s Tools and Implements.
5.     Early American Industries, Inc., The Chronicle 1956.
6.     Territorial Laws of Michigan, [...]