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Beeson's Marine Directory of the Northwestern Lakes - 1900
Harvey C. Beeson, Publisher
308 Royal Insurance Bldg., Chicago, IL


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              LUDINGTON, MICH.

              Population 9,000. Is the judicial seat of Mason Co., the
            western terminus of the F. & P. M. and Mason and Oceana R.R.
            and is located on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of
            the Pere Marquette river, 96 miles by water from Milwaukee,
            and 236 northwest of Detroit. The harbor here, known as Pere
            Marquette Lake, is one of the finest and safest on Lake Michi-
            gan. Ludington was recorded as a village in 1867 and was known
            as the village of Pere Marquette until 1874 when it became in-
            corporated as the city of Ludington. It is a lively business
            place and is substantially built up. It has excellent public
            schools, electric lights, first class hotels, water works,
            well equipped fire department, a national bank, 1 daily news-
            paper, The Mail, and 2 weeklies. It has 4 saw and shingle
            mills, cutting annually 60,000,000 feet of lumber, 40,000,000
            shingles and 15,000,000 lath; 3 salt blocks, making 560,000
            barrels annually, planing mills, foundries, machine shops, iron
            works, a grain elevator, novelty works, wooden bowl factory,
            butter and cheese factory, cannery, etc. The F. & P. M. R'y has
            iron steamers which furnish communication daily, summer and
            winter, with Manistee, Milwaukee and Manitowoc. The company
            have also built a new car ferry boat which runs between this
            place and Manitowoc, greatly facilitating the transfer of
            freight. A small steamer makes daily trips to Pentwater in
            summer. The shipments which are large, embrace lumber, lath,
            shingles, salt, baskets, tanbark and thousands of bushels of
            fruit.

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