Dear Mary, I have a picture of a 1909 baseball team, I will locate it, what years was your grandfather on that team? cassie

Hello, yes, I would like to trade some stories. I know that my grandfather, Sigfred, was injured in some kind of logging accident. The house where my mother was born was quite large and later it burned. Did you her of any stories about a forest fire and that the people from the town went to Jenning Lake to survive the fire? I have a picture of the kids at the school when my mother was about 10 so the picture was from about 1934. Cassie

The Missaukee County Historical Society has a DVD available which includes many names and photos of the Mitchell Bros lumber company in Jennings. In the early 1920's lumbering came to an end in Jennings. The town of Jennings was moved including church's and homes to Cadillac, Mi. The Lutheran Church was moved to Lake City. The moving of this church was followed by newspapers all over the United States. A special moving trailer was built in Cadillac.

For many years Jennings was called a ghost town, but only because it used to have over 2,000 inhabitants, the population went from 2,000 to about 200. The photos of Jennings in its heyday and after the mill closed are shocking. The lake in Jennings was polluted for decades and only recently was the lake clean up completed.