Location: Kneeland, MI

Kneeland was a logging center and located on the MC Davidson branch east of Lewiston in Montmorency County. Its location has not been further identified.

Notes

This may have been near Lundeen.

Time Line

1908. Word just received from Kneeland states that the fires are completely surrounding the settlement and it is expected that they will spread into the big timber every minute. The town is a lumbering place and has a large general store and other public buildings and about 150 inhabitants. The relief train which was sent last night is still there. The cars have been loaded with the store goods and the household effects of the people, as well as other property of a personal character which can be easily taken out, and everything is in preparedness for the immediate removal of the goods and the people. Should the fire get away from the fighting force, the train will immediately start from the settlement for a place of safety and the town will be abandoned to the flames. This is on the Davidson branch of the MC. [GRP-1908-1019]