Title: Boat Landing - Houghton
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Water - Lakes, Woody Plants - Trees, Locomotion - Boats and Boating
Condition: Good
Description: Houghton will soon have a boat landing site. Shown above is part of the equipment working on the plot at Houghton beach near the golf course. The Michigan Department of Conservation is performing the work on their own property. They were given an easement on the site of 300 feet of beach frontage in 1955. The area is broad with the avenue shown being only one of the approaches. The other is to the left. [Photo showing a bulldozer and dump trucks at work on the new boat landing site.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette Article, August 11, 1958 [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Robert Skuggen
Date of Photo: Moundateday August 11 1958
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 8.8 cm x 15.2 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-016-001-020
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
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