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For many years in the latter half of the 19th century, Park City was a thriving logging camp but when the West Michigan Lumber Company finished their cut in 1890 and dismantled the mill, the village quickly died away. There are still a few reminders left behind, several pits which were once the foundations of buildings, and the dried up ponds and canals which provided water are the most obvious but beyond that a few bits of twisted metal and the strange terrain of the earth are all that remain. My thanks to my friends Terry Wantz for showing me this site, and Sandy Vincent for providing information regarding it's history.

 

 

The road in to the Park City site. Railroad tracks are still active.

Apparently this site is not completely unknown.

Along the tracks looking south ...

... and north.

This depression is all that remains of the foundation of one of the buildings in this logging community.

A threaded rod, one of several protruding from the ground, used for anchoring equipment in the mill.

The path of one of several narrow guage railroads that ran from the cutting to the mill.

One of a series of ponds dug and connected via canal to bring water from Tank Lake to the works.

Another pond, this one further north.

Remenants of a canal running between two ponds. It has been marked in the next picture to make it easier to see.

Remenants of a canal running between two ponds.