Location: Turtle Lake Club, MI

The Turtle Lake Club is located in Alpena and Montmorency Counties, south of Hillman, MI. The club is a private hunting and fishing club. The club has a private airport west of Turtle Lake with two runways, the longest being about 4,000' long.

Notes

This club did not have railroad connections from a common carrier railroad, but it may have been touched by logging railroads in the pine era.

Time Line

1905. Many trees not now grown in northern Michigan are being set out on the grounds of the Turtle Lake Fishing & Shooting club in Alpena county, to ascertain if they can be grown in that northern climate. Among the trees are chestnuts, walnut, hickories, butternuts, North Carolina poplars and others usually found in more southerly regions. The trees were procured by President J.D. Hawks of the Detroit & Mackinac railroad from various parts of the country for the purpose of the experiment. [DFP-1905-0517]