2024.04

Found in Collection

Item was in SDHS collection since at least 2008

14 in

36 in

Cultural/Historical Context

Menier’s Fish Shop original site: Cook Dock, Butler Street at Culver Street collection: Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society Collection Captain Fred Menier was a Saugatuck fisherman who operated a Mackinac-type sailing boat with steam engine power. He opened a fish shop along the Saugatuck docks in 1894—selling “fresh fish every day.” The Menier family lived at 711 Butler Street. Menier was killed in a boating accident. Source: Signs of the Times: Old Signs from the Saugatuck & Douglas Area, A Collaborative Exhibition Presented by the Saugatuck Center for the Arts and the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, 2009