This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LEWIS, COON, ROUSH, REICHERT, BURGESS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QFB.2ACE/1648.1 Message Board Post: On page 91 of "Fresh Out of the Attic (Selections from the Hastings Banner Articles by Harold D. Burpee) I found article by Mrs. Grace Chaffee which talks about the village of Morgan: (a) "Once alive with the activity of three sawmills"; (b) "The largest mill, owned by the Bentley brothers of Hastings, employed 200 lumberjacks and was located about a mile east of the present village site. Right in Morgan was the P. G. McClure mill" "and a half mile west stodd the Harley mill to which the logs were rafted across a corner of the lake". On that same page is an article "Quimby, once Propersous Lumber Town" "On a 160-acre plot of land along the south bank of the Thornapple river a lumberman from Grand Rapids , Ichabod Quimby, erected a sawmill near an old Indian burial ground and there employed between 30 and 40 men to saw the logs which were floated across Thornapple lake and down the river to the mill. Next he built a score of houses for his men and their families, and before long a postoffice and a grocery store had sprung up. Even the railroad began to make regular stops at the Quimby station." "A fire in the early 1870's destroyed the sawmill." Does anyone else have info on lumbering industry in this area?