Shriver's Bend
Photograph
Photographs of the wooden sea walls along the final curve of the Kalamazoo River's old harbor, the rustic wooden buildings on the Shriver property and the crow's next dune.
2011.27.07
Print, photograph
Old Harbor/Channel piers pre-1906/Ox-Bow LagoonFishtownWaldorf/Castoria/Drake studios, Shriver Ice houses/shanties
These massive sea walls were built to concentrate and quicken the flow of the Kalamazoo River in the hopes of improving navigation by flushing out silt and potential sand bars. The seawalls were built by the Federal government between 1870 and 1873.
Nautical1910 Ox-BowTransportation: water
2011.27
Volkema, Nancy Davis
Donation
Infrastructure
Postcard Binder 2 water scenes lake river
07/18/2011
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