Location: Alpena, MI - Albert Pack Mill

The Albert Pack Saw Mill and Lumber Yard was located on the Thunder Bay River in Alpena, at West Third Street, north of N. River. This was downtown, across the river from what was the D&M freight house.

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1893. Albert Pack has a force of men grading the land back of his mill wharf, and the work is nearly completed. A railroad track will be laid to extend to the DBC&A road and thus connect with the new Alpena & Northwestern [sic]. The spur to the mill (along the west side of the Thunder Bay River from the D&M main line) is to enable pine logs for Mr. Pack to be brought on cars from his extensive pineries in Presque Isle county to his mill, and 1,500,000 feet will be brought here this winter. Next summer about 2,500,000 feet will come the same way. The logs go direct from the cars to the mill boom. [AArgus-1893-1122]

1894. January. Albert Pack has had several train loads of logs brought from his pineries in Presque Isle county, by the Alpena & Northern railroad, and the timber has been piled in his mill boom. His landing is nearly half full of logs. About 4,000,000 feet of logs will be brought from Presque Isle county this winter and next summer. To get the log cars to Mr. Pack's mill, about one mile of the DBC&A railroad track has to be used. The logs are hauled about 30 miles and are unloaded in the river but a short distance from the business part of the city. [AAN-1894-0131]