Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Master's Theses Graduate College 4-1984 Archaeological Perspectives of the Lumber Industry in Northern Lower Michigan, 1865-1920 Rebecca Ellen Dinsmore Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Dinsmore, Rebecca Ellen, "Archaeological Perspectives of the Lumber Industry in Northern Lower Michigan, 1865-1920" (1984). Master's Theses. 1505. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1505 This Masters Thesis-Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE LUMBER INDUSTRY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN, 1865-1920 by Rebecca Ellen Dinsmore A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Department of Anthropology Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan April 1985 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE LUMBER INDUSTRY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN, 1865-1920 Rebecca Ellen Dinsmore, M.A. Western Michigan University, 1985 In an attempt to generate predictive statements about site structure and location, the nature of lumber industry development is examined through historical and environmental relationships between logging sites, early logging methods, transportation technology, and the presettlement forest as reconstructed from the original General Land Office surveyor field notes and plats. Eighteen historic logging sites recorded on the Huron National Forest and within the Au Sable River watershed comprise the data set.