MLT Damon Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/2/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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This cache was hidden as part of the
2011 Are You Geocacher Enough? Prove It! Road Rally

Special Thanks to The Denvernators!

Damon was settled by and named after George F. Damon
of Damon & Cutting Logging Company. Most of the timber
was owned by the H.M. Loud Company and Potts Company
of AuSable and Oscoda. After they cut the virgin pine in the late
1800's, the Davison Company moved in and timbered second
growths of cedar, tamaracks, etc. All their supplies were brought
in by wagon from Beaver Lake, the nearest railroad station.
The village was laid out into four business blocks. In 1900 the
Davison Brothers warehouse was 50' x 80'. Their general store,
facing McGregor St., was 100' long. McGregor St. was named
after Robert McGregor, a riverman who worked on log
drives out of Rose City in the 1870s. A tote road for hauling
logs ran from Luzerne south on State Rd to Damon, then
east to Rose City and the banking grounds. The logs were
floated down the creek to Rifle River, then to the booming
grounds in Saginaw. Damon had a post office from 1885
until 1912. After the post office closed, residents went to
Rose City 2-3 times a week and picked up the mail.
Bruce McGregor, a former surveyor for the Conservation
Dept, lives in Harrison (1970) and was born in Damon in
1902. McGregor said Oliver Curwood, who created the story
about the "Lost City of Damon", visited the village
in 1911. A few years later his novel Green Timber was
serialized in McCall's Magazine and after his death was
published as a book. Thus the "Lost City of Damon"
was immortalized. A map as described Bruce McGregor tells
of a Blacksmith shop, Steam powered Grist mill, Oil
house, hotel, warehouse, school, livery, ice house and
the McGregor Farm- which Robert McGregor purchased
240 acres around 1890- which became part of Damon
The Davison Bothers timbered the last remains in 1912. In
1916 the warehouse and store was torn down and moved.
One wing of the building was left for residents to use as
a school. Mrs. Bruce McGregor taught school at Damon
in 1920-22. The last buildings were razed in 1924.
After World War II two houses were built near the
village site by descendants of former families. One
of them hung a sign near the site reading the "Lost City
of Damon" and built a small replica of an old-fashion
grocery store. The old Damon cemetery is about 1/2
mile south and west of Damon

Information came from "Michigan Ghost Towns of the Lower
Peninsula (formerly Michigan Ghost Town I & II)"
by R. L. Dodge

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