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Gerrish was a lumbering entrepreneur in
the late 1800s.
Following a warm winter that hampered his
logging activities, Gerrish moved 20 million board feet of logs to the
Muskegon River along a 7.1-mile narrow gauge railroad. The next year he
increased his output six-fold. Though Gerrish was not the first to build
a Michigan logging railroad, his operation was well-publicized,
successful and revolutionized lumbering in Michigan.
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