Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.

Photographer: Joel Seewald
Caption: Chain of Lakes Marker — center right image
Additional Description: The above picture is of the Steamer Prudence Potts, owned by J. W. Potts, and named after his (then) little girl. This was the first passenger boat ever run from Hamburg Junction (Now Lakeland) to Baseline Lake. Making her first trip through the chain of Lakes and down the Huron River to Baseline Lake on July the 30th, 1897. The passengers abroad [sic] were: Dennis Shields and wife of Howell, Mich.; John Rolason and wife of Howell, Mich.; Edward Walker and wife of Ann Arbor, Mich; Mrs. J. McClaron and daughter of Ann Arbor, Mich.; James Stanley and wife of Stockbridge, Mich.; Engineer Joseph Raferty; Captain J. W. Potts.
I am not now running a boat, but am offering camp sites for rent or sale, on very reasonable terms, to people who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity, now being offered to procure, a camping lot, in one of the best located inland summer resorts in Michigan. I have a lake frontage on three lakes, Zukey, Devils Basin, and Strawberry Lake. Come and investigate.
J. W. Potts, Lakeland, Mich. The Legends and Romance of the Lake County Told with Camera and Pencil, Charles A Ward 1922 [p. 74]
Submitted: July 14, 2022, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p666884
File Size: 3.838 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.