SHINGLETON
Region: Pictured Rocks/Munising/Au Train
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| Where M-94 breaks off from 28 and heads south from Shingleton to Manistique is the last curve before the 34 miles of the “Seney Stretch,” Michigan’s flattest highway, across the Great Manistique Swamp. |
The town Shingleton was named for an old shingle mill from the 1880s. Today a sawmill outside of town makes maple boards for furni-ture-makers and eight-foot railroad ties of beech and maple, wholesaled to railroads. This mill, like others in the U.P., is finding it harder and harder to get good quality maple logs from mature trees over 60 years old. Another local forest products company, Bell Timber just south of downtown, logs red pine from nearby forests and makes them into telephone poles some 50 feet long.
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