Pins Galore

by Chris Olson
(Menominee)

Big Bay north of Marquette was home to a sawmill industry and produced 90% of the bowling pins in America for a company called Balke, Collendar, and Brunswick. Scrap from the bowling pins was used to make clothes pins. Later Henry Ford bought the mill and made parts for early model Fords.

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