Point Sable Wreck slowly eroding from the Lake Michigan sand dunes

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Point Sable Wreck slowly eroding from the Lake Michigan sand dunes

Photographer: Joseph Dougherty

ID: 0000 0000 0208 1491 (2008-02-18)

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date of photo 2004

location eastern shore of Lake Michigan (Michigan, US)

notes The wreck of sailing schooner is slowly eroding from the sand at Point Sable. Believed to be the remains of the transport ship 'George F. Foster,' a two-masted schooner loaded with lumber that was bound from Grand Haven to Chicago in the fall of 1872 when she was blown off course and lost in an autumn gale.

camera Nikon

contributor's ID # 2004_07_28_JD_0097

photo category: People - historical

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