My Thoughts...

Is it possible that there may be an entire forest of
Upper Michigan hardwood lying at the bottom of the
Atlantic Ocean...some two and one-half miles deep...deep within and under the collapsing remains of the greatest ship ever built, the RMS Titanic (of course, very little---if any at all-----wood remains on the Titanic wreck today)???

It is a known historical fact that great forests
were logged for their prized timber
throughout Alger County.

Very few know that much of this timber was slid down the cliffs at Sand Point...and rafted away.

Even less know that "rafting away" meant "out
of the country….even across the sea!

      And according to the Alger County Historical
Society's 1985 "Centennial History" book,
some of this timber was sold to
customers in jolly old England.

This book is so full of interesting tidbits and
information about Alger County's past!

     I received a nice letter from one of the granddaughter's of the Titanic's. She made some interesting observations about this web page, and added valuable insight:

     "I don't have any idea of where the wood came from that was used on Titanic(in the dozens of books I've read on the Titanic I've never read where the wood came from; of course it was various varieties, from oak to sycamore)…..

     "…..the ship was built in Belfast, not London or Liverpool.The ship did have Liverpool on its stern, but that's because Liverpool was the port of registry for the White Star Line, not where it was built.

     "I guess it's possible the wood then was made into lumber and shipped to Belfast. All the wood cabinets and so on inside the ship were made by Harland and Wolff's own woodworking shop in Belfast, as far as I know. My grandfather's brother was one of those woodworkers. My grandfather worked on the turbine engine and another brother worked in the engine works."

-----Mary Ann Whitley,
granddaughter of one of Titanic's builders
member, Titanic International Society (US group) and Ulster Titanic Society
(N. Ireland)