2023.10

Found in Collection

These image(s) were copied from the SDHC photo blog [or the Jack Sheridan drive if that was a superior version] in preparation for updating the SDHC website in 2023. The location of an original or printed version of these photos was unknown at the time of cataloging.

"To answer my own question about the shipyard north of the Heath Grist miIll on the 1874 bird’s eye view on the lots that would become the Rogers & Bird shipyard, it was the Heath shipyard. This would come from your page 2023.57.27 (Boatbuilding Interactive). “The Heaths arrived in Saugatuck around 1866 from Bear Lake, Michigan. George Heath built the steamer G. P. Heath in 1871, which was sold at launching to Captain Ralph C. Brittain. George Heath's sons, Cal and George, carried on the family business after their father passed away in 1875.” On greatlakeships.org Calvin Heath is credited for building the tugboats Maude and C. E. Bird in 1878 Also the blacksmith John Priest had his shipsmith shop on lot 220 at the southwest corner of Main and Water Streets." -- Analysis by James T. Faasen, Aug. 2025.