Winfield Scott Gerrish
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Winfield Scott Gerrish
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Winfield Scott Gerrish is credited with revolutionizing lumbering in the U.S. state of Michigan by building a seven-mile-long logging railroad from Lake George to the Muskegon River in Clare County, Michigan in 1877. Although not the first logging railroad in the state, Gerrish's railroad was very successful. Gerrish adopted the idea of using a steam locomotive on steel rails after seeing a Porter 0-4-0 rod engine at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. However, twenty years earlier in May 18
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Lumbering pioneer in the U.S. state of Michigan
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2023-05-19T10:58:30Z
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