![]() Many were built close to my home and I passed a shipyard each day as I went to school. It also gave work for him and his horses during the slack winter months in getting out the timber and hauling it to the building yards.Īs a boy, I ran and played around and over these wooden ships while they were under construction. It was the forerunner of our modern metal shipyards.įrom the period just after the War of 1812, when the first start was made, until the late ’80’s, the construction of wooden ships furnished a great amount of labor much needed when the country around the lakes was being settled, the demand for hard-wood aiding the farmer to pay for his land and the clearing of it as well as for stock and tools. ![]() The days of wooden ships and iron men the wooden ship building industry attained gigantic proportions nearly all the way around the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes… 84% of the continent’s fresh water… a different story in every drop.
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