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O-scale canning company
jdcrawler
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posted Feb 3, 2014: 
This is the Glen Haven Canning Company building.
It is now part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park in Glen Arber Michigan and is a museum.


















History of Glen Haven. ....

C. C. McCarty, brother-in-law of John E. Fisher, founder of Glen Arbor built a sawmill and an inn on the beach west of Glen Arbor in 1857. He called the settlement Sleeping Bearville and the inn was named Sleeping Bear House. McCarty built a dock at Glen Haven in 1865. The location of the dock in Sleeping Bear Bay offered a more protected harbor than some of the other docks in the area. McCarty also built a sawmill on Little Glen Lake where they used tugs to move logs from various parts of the lake to the sawmill and once the lumber was cut up, it was transferred to the Glen Haven dock by wagon or sled. By 1870, a tramway more than two miles long was built.

Glen Haven's development was slowed when many of the settlers left to fight in the Civil War, but accelerated again through the Homestead Act of 1862. P. P. Smith, a returning Union soldier became foreman for Northern Transit Company (NTC) at the Glen Haven cord wood station and later became Glen Haven postmaster.

In 1878, NTC President Philo Chamberlain acquired Glen Haven in order to assure a reliable supply of wood for a 24-vessel fleet providing service between Ogdensburg, NY and Chicago or Milwaukee. To serve as NTC's agent in Glen Haven, Chamberlain picked D. H. Day, his sister-in-law's younger brother. Before long, Day had bought most of NTC's properties including the village of Glen Haven. He also bought shares of two NTC steamers (Lawrence and Champlain).

The Glen Haven beach and dock were popular meeting places, and arrival of steamers was a festive occasion, with area citizens often coming by small boat to watch the docking. Another event prompting locals to get out on the beaches of Sleeping Bear Bay occurred when lumber was swept from ships and docks during storms. The wood was gathered to build many a home and barn.

When times were good for ship owners, the unloading of cargo at Glen Haven took twenty to thirty men about an hour. With expansion of trucking companies and improved highways, steamboat freight and passenger revenues fell sharply. The Glen Arbor stop was eliminated around 1918 and the pier allowed to deteriorate. Service continued to Glen Haven but by the late 1920s, there was little cargo and few passengers. Insolvency for operators of the steamships in 1931 brought the beginning of the end of Glen Haven's maritime role - and it's massive dock.

By the early 1920s D.H. Day had established the Glen Haven Canning Company on the shore near the dock. Day had established a farm and orchard south of Glen Haven where he had over 5,000 cherry and apple trees. The Canning Company processed the fruit and shipped it to market from the Glen Haven Dock. With improvements in the roads and rail service, the importance of the Glen Haven dock continued to decline until it was closed in 1931. Today the Cannery is used as a Great Lakes Boat Museum.


This is an old photo of the Glen Haven dock.






Steamer at the Glen Haven dock.






There was a railroad track that ran by the canning building and out on to the dock.






This is all that is left of the Glen Haven dock today.






This is the start of the canning building.






Made up the ends of the building.










Here are the support beams and floor joist under the office area.






Getting the roof made up with the trim around the outside glued on.










Both roof sections are finished.






The lower areas of the building are painted.






Starting to fit the paper siding on.






Once the glue has dried on the siding, the window openings are cut out.










Finished the building.
Wasn't able to get lettering exactly the same as the real building so I fudged on that a little.
























 
timw
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posted Feb 5, 2014: 
awesome!
 
Mark Boyce
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posted Feb 6, 2014: 
I hadn't noticed all the sliding doors on the front of the real building. Then when I saw them on the model I had to look back. Excellent job. Looks like you like to build a very sturdy wooden building. I am very impressed with your work. The history lesson was very interesting as well. Thank you for taking the time to take the photos throughout your process.

Mark
 

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