The Michigan Logging Wheel, (Big Wheel) was invented by Silas C. Overpack in 1875 in Manistee, Michigan.
The invention of the Big Wheel enabled the logging industry to harvest timber on a year-round basis. Previously logging was restricted . . . — — Map (db m298463) HM
"I'll build a little Chicago!"
Colonel Charles Bogardus, Union army officer and Civil War hero, Illinois legislator and banker, came north in 1901 to develop the town laid out on paper by his late father-in-law William H. . . . — — Map (db m298464) HM
