The Chicago Lumber Co. created the slab wood islands in Michigan’s Manistique River during the lumber heyday of the late 1870s. They are made of the unusable outside of logs – slab wood. Image: Stephanie Swart
Boats parked next to the slab wood islands while the usable lumber was loaded onto them. The islands are just north of US-2 in the harbor of the Manistique River. Image: Stephanie Swart
The overgrown slab wood islands are popular with raccoons that nightly pick crayfish from the crevices in the wood. Image: Stephanie Swart
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