Northern Mich~Mash Preserve
~BAY SHORE~
(Big Rock and also Radar Site)
AND
Village of Carpenter (near Bay Shore)
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Map Below: The 1915 hand-drawn map on a brown paper bag by Audrey Gilmartin of her village of Bay Shore is precious. It includes facets of Bay Shore such as Old Petoskey Road, County Line Road, Petoskey-Charlevoix Road, Indian Town Road, Pere-Marquette Railroad line, Sawmill, Broom Handle Mill, Blacksmith Shop, Saloon, Garage, Tillotson's Store, Ice House, Old Company Store, Depot, Pool Room, Tom Scroggie's Store, 9th 10th & Grade School, Play Ground and Ball Field, Lime Stone Storage Shed, Catholic Church, Stickney's Hose House, Bayside Inn, Horse Barn, Water Tank, Kilns, Presbyterian Church, Carriage Shed, Cooper's Shed, Company Boarding House, and residences for Worth, Stauffer, Tom Scroggie, Sam Dodge, Long, VanSchoik, Burek, Yahr, Wallace, Sly, Gilmartin, Tillotson, Atwood, Bowman, and unnamed residences and cottages.
Click HERE to access Rick Wiles' article "Fire in the Sky" which gives the history of the B-52 CRASH.
Bay Shore ~ The Name
Other names Triple Rock, Rocky Beach, and Bayside, but when the railroad came through in 1896...
it became Bay Shore.
Other names Triple Rock, Rocky Beach, and Bayside, but when the railroad came through in 1896...
it became Bay Shore.
The Michigan Place Names published in 1896 wrote of Bay Shore: "... the land owned by Eugene R. Sly and Nancy Stauffer; north of the Gilmartin Road it was known as Bay Side, but both areas came to be called Bay Shore; given a station on the Chicago & Western Michigan (now Pere Marquette) Railroad by 1892 and on July 25, 1892, a post office, with Mr. Sly, then secretary of the Bay Side Resort, as its first postmaster, the office operating until Sept. 30, 1964; surveyed and platted by John Swift in 1896; named from its location on Little Traverse Bay [Lydia C. Stolt, PM]."
In the late 1880s, Bay Shore had about 300 people, Mr. Sly's lime kilns, lumber mills, broom factories, shingle factories, and a barrel mill... businesses dependent on the railroad. Fire, however, destroyed the broom and shingle factories, and later in 1907, fire took the general store, and the two churches... everything was wood, and easily burned, like the hotels in Petoskey.
Lime Kilns' names:
Bay Shore Lime Company
Elk Cement and Lime Company
Superior Lime Company ~ About 1917 purchased by Morgan Curtis owner of >
Petoskey Lime Company
The 2010 Census set the population for Bay Shore, Michigan, as 754. Bay Shore, Michigan, is located on the county line of (Resort Township) Emmet County and (Hayes Township) Charlevoix County... mostly located in Charlevoix County.
Photo Below: "Old Mother Smoke" was said to have been a resident of Bay Shore.
Photo Postcard Below and Possible Associated Death Certificate Below: Postcard was labeled "Smoke Shakenavoy Oldest Indian Near Petoskey" AND Death Certificate for "Joe Smoke Shaganaba, Single Male Indian, born in Bay Shore, Mich. to John Shaganaba of Emmet County and Elizabeth Lenie of Suttons Bay Mich. Died 16 May 1928 of Influenza - Pneumonia" to be buried in Greenwood Cemetery. It is assumed this death certificate is for the man in the photo, but the names are spelled a bit differently on each item. Also, the DC states he was only 39 years old, but sometimes the information thinks the clerk registering the DC is asking how old the informant is. Both of these items are interesting and posted here as POSSIBLY being associated.
Early 1900s
Article Below: Zack White was a band leader and friend of Duke Ellington and Louie Armstrong.
Ellingtons' sister lived in Bay Shore which gave him the connection to perform at
Zack White's Bay Shore Dance Hall on the Knoll.
Ellington also jammed with local bands a few doors away at the Shintangle.
Article Below: Zack White was a band leader and friend of Duke Ellington and Louie Armstrong.
Ellingtons' sister lived in Bay Shore which gave him the connection to perform at
Zack White's Bay Shore Dance Hall on the Knoll.
Ellington also jammed with local bands a few doors away at the Shintangle.
Below: The History of Bay Shore was compiled by Bay Shore resident Audrey Gilmartin (later married a Miller) for a portion of her Master's Degree work. Audrey Gilmartin Miller went on to teach in various schools in the area.
About 1894
Northern Lime Company
(Operated by the Sly Family)
Northern Lime Company
(Operated by the Sly Family)
Click HERE to access a summary of Homer Sly's wife, Edith Doe Sly's involvement in the community. Edith was described as a powerhouse for the American Red Cross during WWI.
Article Below: Albert Schluttenhofer was in the lime rock quarry near Bay Shore in April of 1907
when he was totally blinded by a premature dynamite blast that nearly cost him his life.
Albert Schluttenhofer's son Ralph was married to Bessie Way
whose adopted parents were killed in the tragic yacht wreck of the Chiquita in 1899.
when he was totally blinded by a premature dynamite blast that nearly cost him his life.
Albert Schluttenhofer's son Ralph was married to Bessie Way
whose adopted parents were killed in the tragic yacht wreck of the Chiquita in 1899.
The photo/text above of the lime kilns was in an undated news article written by Peg Ohle titled: "Bay Shore was bustling community in early part of century."
"There have been no operating lime kilns in Bay Shore since 1930. No one remembers when the lumber mill stopped operating. The hotel (which had been built for an orphanage, but was never used as such) burned down in 1914. The general store burned down in 1907. The blacksmith shop is gone, so are the meat market, the barber shop, the ice cream parlor, and the saloon.
The two churches burned down the same winter, but were later rebuilt and stand today, serving the community. There are two small grocery stores, McArt's Mart, which also serves as the post office, and the Bay Shore Food Market. The two-room school house has been remodeled into a home.
There is now an Air Force Radar Station in Bay Shore, bringing young men from all over the country to the town that once knew few 'outsiders'.
One of these young men, John Kintz, liked the area so well that he stayed in Bay Shore when his 'hitch' was up. He started a Cable TV station to serve the surrounding countryside, bringing a touch of the electronic present to blend with the past [see advertisement below for Kintz's Bay Shore Cablevision].
One person who has witnessed the past and present of Bay Shore is 83-year-old Bessie Zipp, who was born and married in Bay Shore. Her grandparents operated a boarding house for the laborers who worked on the railroad when it was being extended northward.
Mrs. Zipp well remembers the early days of the lime kiln.
'It was started about 1888 or 1889, and the limestone was first hauled by the steamship 'Friant', but the dock was destroyed by a storm in 1896, and it was shipped by rail after that.
Mrs. Zipp has lived in the same house for 60 years. Once a 'company' house, it is 75 or 80 years old, but stands square and sturdy, a tribute to the workmanship of bygone days....
'Bay Shore had a band one time, and a ball team, too,' Mrs. Zipp recalls.
'We made our own entertainment in those days. We played games on the bluff, had school entertainments, dances in the hall over the store, went to ice cream socials, and made maple sugar. It was fun.
'Loggers for miles around furnished the kilns with four-foot pieces of wood for fuel,' Mrs. Zipp says. 'They hauled all year long. It was good business for them.'
Mrs. Zipp also remembers that a by-product of the lumber mill was broom handles, making Bay Shore a multi-product manufacturing community.
Mrs. Zipp's family not only came to Bay Shore a long time ago, but they have remained. She and her husband had seven children, six of whom are still living, and four of whom are still in the Bay Shore area: Edith Copping, Richard Zipp, Eileen Green, and Lawrence Zipp. Daughter Arthella Duffus wandered off to Chicago and Dorothy Young to Petoskey....
There was once a large Indian population in Bay Shore, and many of their men also worked for the limestone company. Today there are only two families of Native Americans in Bay Shore, the Nathaniel Smiths and the Gordon Willises (Mrs. Smith and Willis are brother and sister). The Smiths live on 'Smith Road', which was once the center of 'Indiantown', and the Willises in the old school house.
Mr. Smith's family were early Bay Shore settlers, but Ann Smith's father, John Willis, came from the Susan Lake area and her mother from Pincherry Road, both of which were once large Indian...
There is no history of an Indian church in Bay Shore but the Greensky Hill Methodist Church, up old Highway U.S. 31 from Bay Shore, has served the Native American community in the area for many years. The Smith's are active in that church today, thus having a link with their native heritage.
Like Mrs. Zipp, Mrs. Smith recalls that as children they made their own entertainment. She also recalls that a summer activity was picking berries for people.
'When we went to school here, about half of us were Native Americans,' Mrs. Smith says of the once-large settlement. 'There were about 40 students in the school, and two teachers.'
Asked if she carried on any of the arts of her ancestors, Mrs. Smith said that she still makes a few baskets. 'It's an art I don't want to die,' she reflected.
Her other skill is sewing, which she learned from her mother, and now puts to use in her alteration business. 'I also devote a lot of time to the church, cooking for the summer camps and things. Just recently we entertained the church cabinet and Bishop Emmons for a steak fry at our house.'
Yesterday or today, Bay Shore was and is a community of families determined to do their part in an ever-changing world."
"There have been no operating lime kilns in Bay Shore since 1930. No one remembers when the lumber mill stopped operating. The hotel (which had been built for an orphanage, but was never used as such) burned down in 1914. The general store burned down in 1907. The blacksmith shop is gone, so are the meat market, the barber shop, the ice cream parlor, and the saloon.
The two churches burned down the same winter, but were later rebuilt and stand today, serving the community. There are two small grocery stores, McArt's Mart, which also serves as the post office, and the Bay Shore Food Market. The two-room school house has been remodeled into a home.
There is now an Air Force Radar Station in Bay Shore, bringing young men from all over the country to the town that once knew few 'outsiders'.
One of these young men, John Kintz, liked the area so well that he stayed in Bay Shore when his 'hitch' was up. He started a Cable TV station to serve the surrounding countryside, bringing a touch of the electronic present to blend with the past [see advertisement below for Kintz's Bay Shore Cablevision].
One person who has witnessed the past and present of Bay Shore is 83-year-old Bessie Zipp, who was born and married in Bay Shore. Her grandparents operated a boarding house for the laborers who worked on the railroad when it was being extended northward.
Mrs. Zipp well remembers the early days of the lime kiln.
'It was started about 1888 or 1889, and the limestone was first hauled by the steamship 'Friant', but the dock was destroyed by a storm in 1896, and it was shipped by rail after that.
Mrs. Zipp has lived in the same house for 60 years. Once a 'company' house, it is 75 or 80 years old, but stands square and sturdy, a tribute to the workmanship of bygone days....
'Bay Shore had a band one time, and a ball team, too,' Mrs. Zipp recalls.
'We made our own entertainment in those days. We played games on the bluff, had school entertainments, dances in the hall over the store, went to ice cream socials, and made maple sugar. It was fun.
'Loggers for miles around furnished the kilns with four-foot pieces of wood for fuel,' Mrs. Zipp says. 'They hauled all year long. It was good business for them.'
Mrs. Zipp also remembers that a by-product of the lumber mill was broom handles, making Bay Shore a multi-product manufacturing community.
Mrs. Zipp's family not only came to Bay Shore a long time ago, but they have remained. She and her husband had seven children, six of whom are still living, and four of whom are still in the Bay Shore area: Edith Copping, Richard Zipp, Eileen Green, and Lawrence Zipp. Daughter Arthella Duffus wandered off to Chicago and Dorothy Young to Petoskey....
There was once a large Indian population in Bay Shore, and many of their men also worked for the limestone company. Today there are only two families of Native Americans in Bay Shore, the Nathaniel Smiths and the Gordon Willises (Mrs. Smith and Willis are brother and sister). The Smiths live on 'Smith Road', which was once the center of 'Indiantown', and the Willises in the old school house.
Mr. Smith's family were early Bay Shore settlers, but Ann Smith's father, John Willis, came from the Susan Lake area and her mother from Pincherry Road, both of which were once large Indian...
There is no history of an Indian church in Bay Shore but the Greensky Hill Methodist Church, up old Highway U.S. 31 from Bay Shore, has served the Native American community in the area for many years. The Smith's are active in that church today, thus having a link with their native heritage.
Like Mrs. Zipp, Mrs. Smith recalls that as children they made their own entertainment. She also recalls that a summer activity was picking berries for people.
'When we went to school here, about half of us were Native Americans,' Mrs. Smith says of the once-large settlement. 'There were about 40 students in the school, and two teachers.'
Asked if she carried on any of the arts of her ancestors, Mrs. Smith said that she still makes a few baskets. 'It's an art I don't want to die,' she reflected.
Her other skill is sewing, which she learned from her mother, and now puts to use in her alteration business. 'I also devote a lot of time to the church, cooking for the summer camps and things. Just recently we entertained the church cabinet and Bishop Emmons for a steak fry at our house.'
Yesterday or today, Bay Shore was and is a community of families determined to do their part in an ever-changing world."
1983 Photo Below: During 2022 the Petoskey News Review reported regarding the important issue of the Emmet County Road Commission property then next to H&D's gravel pit being considered for rezoning from agricultural to industrial. Local area residents were not in agreement, and held various meetings and protests. That rezoning was in the area of the gravel pit near the rail way overpass of US 31 in the upper right of the below photo.
Before 1899
Village of Carpenter (near Bay Shore)
Village of Carpenter (near Bay Shore)
Article Above: Neighborhood Notes already in 1884 were for Carpenter. The Goodrich and Plank, perhaps related to the Planck Mill in the photo below, were "commencing to rebuild their sawmill and broom-handle factory..." among other community happenings.
1899 Article Below: A Carpenter Post Office is referenced.
Text Accompanied the Photo Below: "The lumber and broom handle factory of Carpenter, six miles west of Carpenter, from 1883 to 1898. Log house at left was Mr. Shakanaby's. The house with fenced in yard was the Planck house and one in cornerthe yard was where the section boss lived, when the Pere Marquette Railroad was under construction. The house in the rear next to the lumber was the George Hinderer home. The team with a load of handles was starting to Petoskey. This picture is a copy of one taken about 1890. Lumber & Broom Handle Factory in background. The mill property was owned by Michael Planck. ~ Mrs. Bessie Newson, 203 West Mitchell St. Petoskey"
Four Obituaries Below:
John Shakanaby who house is in the above photo.
Michael and Mary Planck had owned the lumber and broom handle company at Carpenter's Corners.
John Hinderer mentioned in Bessie Planck's above photo description.
John Shakanaby who house is in the above photo.
Michael and Mary Planck had owned the lumber and broom handle company at Carpenter's Corners.
John Hinderer mentioned in Bessie Planck's above photo description.
1907 Article Below Left: M.S. Planck of Carpenter's Mill organized, with A.N. Hart, the Petoskey Kitchen Cabinet Co. located on Charlevoix Avenue in Petoskey. |
1910 Article Below Right: A Planck carpenter shop was located directly west of the Lincoln school building in Petoskey. The entire shop was burned, but with hope that "Mr. Planck will undoubtedly rebuild the shop." |
Photo Below: Notice on the handrawn map at the top of this web page that the railroad ran almost through the middle of the Village of Bay Shore. The photo below of the Bay Shore Railroad Depot was found the Genealogy Trails web site which may be accessed by clicking HERE.
Rocky Beach Benevolent Association Orphanage (Vision) > Irvington Hotel > Bay Side Inn
Resort Township Remembers relates on page 109 that "The Irvington Hotel, at one time called the Bay Side Inn was built around 1896-1897 by the Rocky Beach Benevolent Association under the guidance of Rev. Winfield Sly who envisioned it as an orphanage... only a few children used the orphanage. Due to lack of funds for an orphanage, when the building was finally completed it became known as the Irvington Hotel. Mrs. William Kerns was the hotel proprietress of the three story structure (later advertisement shown below right as Bay Side Inn) which included two dining rooms, an office, men's smoking room, bedrooms, baths, "Bridal Suite", ballroom (dance hall) and helps' quarters. The property also included a barn for horses and a chicken coop. The community water tank was also behind the hotel with two windmills that pumped water up from the lake. Those provided fire protection for all of Bay Shore's fire hydrants. Ironically, the hotel was destroyed by fire 13 November 1914."
Articles Below: Bay Shore Happenings in 1910
~ Ray Dickerhoof Bay Shore Postmaster Dies Today ~
(Tombstone is engraved Dickerhoof, rather than Dickerhoff as in this article below)
(Tombstone is engraved Dickerhoof, rather than Dickerhoff as in this article below)
~ Bay Shore Churches and Sunday School ~
Photo Below: Bay Shore Sunday School Picnic on the Bluff
Any additional information about this photo may be sent to the web master by clicking HERE.
Any additional information about this photo may be sent to the web master by clicking HERE.
Bay Shore is the home to two church buildings. The Jesus is Lord Community Church in Bay Shore has an active church congregation. The church building which had been home to the St. Francis Solanus Church is now the home of Bay Shore Art & Antiques, owned by a local Bay Shore family. Additional information is provided about both church homes on this Northern Mich~Mash Preserve web site's web page "Churches".
Jesus is Lord Community Church of Bay Shore
(...has an active congregation)
(...has an active congregation)
St. Francis Solanus Church
(Bay Shore Art & Antique store in 2018)
(Bay Shore Art & Antique store in 2018)
Photos Below of Ceiling and Chandeliers:
The chandeliers and ceiling tiles are all original to the St. Francis Solanus Church building...
Each of the tiles with blue color have a unique design.
The chandeliers and ceiling tiles are all original to the St. Francis Solanus Church building...
Each of the tiles with blue color have a unique design.
Photo Below: Tucked into the back corner In the basement of the church building is
a 10 or more foot church pew which had been original to the church.
a 10 or more foot church pew which had been original to the church.
Photo Below: This original organ that was played in the St. Francis Solanus Church
still plays a part in the ambience of the church building's interior...
Mary Wiklanski was the organist for the church. The organ came from Mary's sister who lived in Cross Village, Michigan. Then, the church bought an electric organ so this old organ was moved across the street from the church. In about 2015 or 2016, the owners of the church building, the Bay Shore Art & Antique store in 2018,
bought the organ to once again reside in the church building.
still plays a part in the ambience of the church building's interior...
Mary Wiklanski was the organist for the church. The organ came from Mary's sister who lived in Cross Village, Michigan. Then, the church bought an electric organ so this old organ was moved across the street from the church. In about 2015 or 2016, the owners of the church building, the Bay Shore Art & Antique store in 2018,
bought the organ to once again reside in the church building.
Photo Below: Intricate detail of the design on the top of the organ shown in the photo above.
The FIRST Catholic Church in Bay Shore, built as a missionary, was located between the railroad tracks and nearby Little Traverse Bay. That church burned in 1927. By 1928 a new church was built on the far side of the railroad tracks, and shown in the photos above. The founding members were as listed on the board, shown in the photo below, which still hangs in the entryway to the church building. The FIRST couple to be married in the church in 1928 was William and Thelma (Trautman) Price, grandparents to one of the owners of the building today (2018)... John Burrows. Julie Pater is another owner in the business.
On 16 June 2022 a huge sale was beginning for the process of closing the business.
On 16 June 2022 a huge sale was beginning for the process of closing the business.
The slide show below which can be controlled by "clicking" on the thumbnails
has available obituaries for the Bay Shore, Michigan, people (in order beginning left column going down)
listed above on the board for St. Francis Solanus Church.
has available obituaries for the Bay Shore, Michigan, people (in order beginning left column going down)
listed above on the board for St. Francis Solanus Church.
~ Bay Shore School ~
Photo Below: The Bay Shore School was built about 1900. The teacher Mrs. Ross was included in the photo below taken about 1903. The next photo below is of the back of this school photo, listing the names also of several students. The dot over the head of the little girl identifies Hazel Gilmartin. If anyone has additional information about this photo, please contact this web master by clicking HERE.
~ Bay Shore Pioneers and Pillars ~
Clipping and Death Certificate Below: Mrs. James Clement (Indian name was Ska-ne-gon) died in December 1927 at 114 years old, and probably the oldest native born woman in the state at the time. She was buried in the Indian Cemetery at Greensky Hill. The 23 June 1930 death certificate showed that James Clements had been married (then a widower) to Jane Clements. The informant Will Petoskey, also of Bay Shore, did not know much of James Clements' history, or James' exact age; guessing "about 90- years old". If anyone knows more about Mr. and Mrs. James Clements, click HERE to contact the web master.
Bay Shores FIRST Sweetheart 1976 Laura Deschermeier
James "Jim" Baker was a LIFE-LONG resident of Bay Shore.
Louis Hand grew up in Bay Shore.
Linda Ann (Price) Oostmeyer was born in Bay Shore,
grew up on the family's farm in Bay Shore,
and retired as an office manager for Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant.
grew up on the family's farm in Bay Shore,
and retired as an office manager for Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant.
Mrs. Elizabeth (Compeau) Grey Madison was born in Bay Shore on 15 July 1883.
1900 ~ John and Ada Gilmartin Moved to Bay Shore
(married 10 August 1890)
(married 10 August 1890)
Photo Below:
The Gilmartins in Later Life
Ada Ericks Gilmartin (1869 ~ 1957)
Michael "John" Gilmartin (1869 ~ 1960)
The Gilmartins in Later Life
Ada Ericks Gilmartin (1869 ~ 1957)
Michael "John" Gilmartin (1869 ~ 1960)
Fifty Years of Marriage
Article and Two Photos Below: John Gilmartin and Ada E. Ericks were married 10 August 1890 in Charlevoix where they lived for a year. Then, they moved to East Jordan for ten years. In 1900 the Gilmartins moved to Bay Shore where they built their home. John worked at the Northern Stone and Lime Company in Bay Shore during his early years of marriage, and in the later years he worked for the Petoskey Portland Cement Company, retiring in 1939. John later operated popcorn (Carmel Crisp) shops in Petoskey and Cheboygan, Michigan, retiring once more about 1943. Ada passed in 1957 and John passed in 1960, with John having been a resident of Charlevoix County for more than 69 years. Their survivors included two daughters, Mrs. Hazel M. (Basil) Hause of Highland Park and Mrs. Audrey (Douglas) Miller of East Mitchell Street in Petoskey; a son Leonard Gilmartin of Lansing.
Ada was born 11 August 1869 in Kristianstad, Sweden. She came with her parents and a sister and brother to Ironton, Michigan, when Ada was eleven years old. She was a member of the Presbyterian church where she served for years as the primary teacher in the Sunday school and an active member in the Ladies Aid Society. John Gilmartin was born 9 August 1869 in Port Huron, Michigan. John and Ada celebrated their birthdays of August 9 and 11 (both in 1869) AND their wedding anniversary of August 10, all together in one big celebration.
Ada was born 11 August 1869 in Kristianstad, Sweden. She came with her parents and a sister and brother to Ironton, Michigan, when Ada was eleven years old. She was a member of the Presbyterian church where she served for years as the primary teacher in the Sunday school and an active member in the Ladies Aid Society. John Gilmartin was born 9 August 1869 in Port Huron, Michigan. John and Ada celebrated their birthdays of August 9 and 11 (both in 1869) AND their wedding anniversary of August 10, all together in one big celebration.
It had been the property of the Gilmartin Family that became the newest and largest lake side property of the Little Traverse Conservancy in 2023 as noted a bit farther below. |
John Gilmartin was born in 1869 in Port Huron, Michigan, and passed away in 1960 at the home of his daughter Hazel M. Hause in Highland Park, Michigan. He had been a Charlevoix County resident for more than 69 years.
Mrs. John (Ada) Gilmartin was born in 1969 in Sweden and passed away in 1957. Douglas Miller, husband of Audrey Gilmartin, passed away in 1972. Audrey Gilmartin, wife of Douglas Miller, passed away in 2000. Basil F. Hause, husband of Hazel Gilmartin, passed away in 1985. Shirley Hause, wife of Gerald F. Hause, passed away in 2015. Gerald F. Hause, son of Basil Hause, passed away in 2021. Lucille Gilmartin, wife of Leonard C. Gilmartin, passed away in 1991. |
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Two Photos Below: 14 August 1949 at the Gilmartin's Bay Shore Home
John and Ada Gilmartin in front
Back L>R: Basil Hause and Audrey Gilmartin Miller with her husband Douglas Miller
John and Ada Gilmartin in front
Back L>R: Basil Hause and Audrey Gilmartin Miller with her husband Douglas Miller
L>R: Hazel Hause, Basil Hause, Ada and John Gilmartin, and Audrey Miller
Photo Below: In 1924 Audrey Gilmartin was teaching in Marion, Michigan.
This letter below was written by Gerald “Jerry” Hause, son of Hazel Gilmartin Hause. Jerry had written a vast amount of Bay Shore history learned from Jerry’s mother, and from Hazel’s sister Audrey Gilmartin Miller; with both Hazel and Audrey having grown up in Bay Shore, and their parents living their entire lives in Bay Shore. Jerry’s letter was written in 2000 to Bruce and Eileen (Zipp) Green. The Green's had purchased the old Tillotson’s Store in Bay Shore. The store had been started by A.G. Tillotson and was owned by Harold Tillotson from 1945 until 8 October 1951. The Green’s purchased the old store in 1951 and opened a new store 3 December 1963, having a Grand Opening on 18 January 1964. The Bay Shore post office was added to the store as a contract station on 1 October 1964. It was the Green’s store until 1970 when Tim and Villery McArt purchased it, with the name of the store remaining Green’s Grocery. The Green’s had owned their Bay Shore store for 17 years.
Carrie Ludwig told in 2022 that not only was her grandfather Jerry Hause passionate about preserving his family's history, his other passions included: "ham radios (he was a radio repairman in the Navy when he young) U of M at 16!!! He loved music. Jerry was an engineer at GM for years (designed the breaking system for the 59 [maybe wrong year] Chevy). He also designed a compact car of some sort, but Ralph Nader turned it down because “it was too small” and then several years later Nader approved one almost identical made by someone else. Jerry's true passion was preserving history and tracing his genealogy as far back as he could go though."
Photos Below: These are 1927 and 1930 photos of the John and Ada Gilmartin home as referenced on page one of Jerry Hause's letter above.
Photo Below: The Gilmartin Family went for a Christmas Day sleigh ride on their Bay Shore property,
with Jerry Hause lying down on the sleigh by the dog.
with Jerry Hause lying down on the sleigh by the dog.
August 2022 Photo Below: Carrie Ludwig great, great granddaughter of John and Ada Gilmartin, visited property in Bay Shore which is still owned by the family descendants. Carrie's great grandpa Basil Hause planted these pine trees... a tree farm. He would cut and haul them to Memphis, Michigan, to sell at Christmas.
It was announced publicly on the front page of the 16 September 2023 Petoskey News Review that the Gilmartin descendants had made arrangements with the Little Traverse Conservancy to protect the Gilmartin land and to build trails and an overlook, and to care for the property in perpetuity. The name “The Place of Peacefulness” encompasses the essence of the property; 56 acres of pristine forest along the shores of Lake Michigan. The conservancy describes the land as “the largest remaining unprotected and undeveloped shoreline from the Mackinac Bridge to Big Rock with 1/4 mile on Lake Michigan; being the LTC’s largest investment in a preserve to date.”
Aerial View Below of the Little Traverse Conservancy Bay Shore 56-Acre Property preserved in 2023; the location next to Little Traverse Bay and to U.S. 31 highway connecting Charlevoix and Petoskey.
16 February 2024 ~ "Judge rules on Hayes Township gravel pit operation"
(Reported in the Petoskey News Review)
(Reported in the Petoskey News Review)
Charlevoix's 33 Circuit Court Judge Roy C. Hayes III ruled to allow Rieth-Riley Construction Inc. to continue operation of their embattled Hayes Township gravel pit unit 31 December 2028, with reclamation of the land to be completed by 31 December 2029. "With the judge's decision, neither the residents who live near the pit and had intervened in the legal process to stop the mining operations nor the construction company who had purchased the property from H & D Inc. and wanted, according to Hayes, 'unfettered discretion to mine the green pit to the point of exhaustion,' were left completely satisfied with the court's ruling on 9 February 2024."
About 1877 ~ Scroggie Family of Bay Shore
James Scroggie, the son of Sgt. William Scroggie and Mary Coulter (Cultra) Scroggie, was born 20 July 1826 in Rawdon, Quebec, Canada. On 19 February 1850 in Rawdon James married Sarah Ann Burns, the daughter of Dean Burns and Elizabeth “Liza” Kerr Burns. Sarah was born 7 May 1829 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Both James and Sarah Ann Burns Scroggie died in Hayes Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan, and were buried in the Brookside Cemetery in Charlevoix, Michigan. James passed 4 April 1878 and Sarah passed 26 April 1913.
James and Sarah had eight children as shown on the chart below:
James and Sarah had eight children as shown on the chart below:
~ Funeral Held at Scroggie's Bay Shore Farm Home ~
1918
1918
Listed Below: Children of Mr. and Mrs. James Scroggie (Obituary Left)
Tom Scroggie m. Minnie Erics was the brother of four siblings:
William Scroggie m. Alice Burns (Charlevoix)
Dean Scroggie m. Margaret Copping (Hayes Twp.)
Hannah Scroggie m. William Gray (Hayes Twp.)
Mary Scroggie m. George Zipp (Petoskey).
Tom Scroggie m. Minnie Erics was the brother of four siblings:
William Scroggie m. Alice Burns (Charlevoix)
Dean Scroggie m. Margaret Copping (Hayes Twp.)
Hannah Scroggie m. William Gray (Hayes Twp.)
Mary Scroggie m. George Zipp (Petoskey).
~ William E. Gray was born in 1883 in Bay Shore. ~
Tom Scroggie was the father of Bernice Scroggie and Beatrice Scroggie.
Two Pages Below: Bernice Scroggie Beerman wrote of her memories of Bay Shore. Bernice, the daughter of Thomas James Scroggie and Minnie Ericks Scroggie, was born 29 October 1902, and passed away 21 June 1990 in Orange County, Laguna Hills, California. Bernice's husband was H. Paul Beerman. Bernice was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery on Washington Street in Owosso, Michigan.
Letter Below:
This letter was addressed to Bernice Scroggie's cousin Jerry Hause,
telling what Bernice's life entailed after having been born in a "log cabin" in Bay Shore;
becoming Bernice Scroggie Beerman.
This letter was addressed to Bernice Scroggie's cousin Jerry Hause,
telling what Bernice's life entailed after having been born in a "log cabin" in Bay Shore;
becoming Bernice Scroggie Beerman.
~ Tour Bay Shore Historical Home of Eugene Sly Owned by Jack Perry ~
1970
1970
Ernest R. Dietze, Jr. and wife Amy Lou Johnson Dietze owned and operated the Dietze Food Market in Bay Shore from 1946 to 1962. Ernest Dietze was a member of the Bay Shore Presbyterian Church where he served as a decon and an elder.
Bay Shore Pioneers and General Store Operators ~ Tillotson
A.G. (Ashael Greer) Tillotson had three children as noted in their 50th wedding anniversary announcement in 1942. Their son Harold Tillotson had a son Ken Tillotson who lived in Walloon Lake, Michigan. One of Ken Tillotson's daughters, Cindy Tillotson Reed, also live in Walloon Lake until entering missionary work. In 2022 Cindy and husband Carl Reed are considering retiring from their post in Jogjakarta, Java, Indonesia. Additional information about the Walloon Lake Tillotson Family may be accessed by clicking HERE.
Front and Back of Photo Below: The photo was labeled as "The E.Tude Club" Bay Shore ~ 1907"
Photo identifications L>R: Theo Bowman, Hazel Gilmartin, Grace Beemer, Bessie Tillotson
Photo identifications L>R: Theo Bowman, Hazel Gilmartin, Grace Beemer, Bessie Tillotson
Bessie Tillotson in the photo above, married Arthur Zipp in Bay Shore in 1914. Bessie's 1981 obituary is below right.
~John Willis points to the cross he chiseled from a single stone in the Bay Shore fireplace he built.~
1959
~ Timothy and Villery McArt are New Owners of Green's Grocery ~
(Also referred to as McArt's Mart)
1970
(Also referred to as McArt's Mart)
1970
Timothy McArt's 2004 obituary stated that he and his wife Villery "Billie" owned McArt's Mart in Bay Shore, Michigan, from 1970 until 1983. He passed away in San Jose, California. Villery McArt died 30 January 2006 at home in Auburn, California.
~ Bay Shore Activities and Recreation ~
~ Sailing ~
1931
1931
Photo Below: The Gilmartin descendants may have been sailing on Walloon Lake or in Little Traverse Bay in the Bay Shore area. Hazel Gilmartin Hause (in the red) and Hazel's sister Audrey Gilmartin Miller Iin the white top) steadied the boat with Hazel's daughter Barbara Joan Hause and an unidentified young man sitting in the sailboat.
~ Bay Shore Bicenntenial Parade ~
1976
1976
~ Bay Shore Erosion near U.S. 31 Guardrail ~
1987
1987
~ Bay Shore Viaduct Update ~
1987
1987
The 16 September 2022 Petoskey News Review headline read:
"Rezoning request dropped but Bay Shore residents still concerned."
"Rezoning request dropped but Bay Shore residents still concerned."
Manthei Construction pulled their application to rezone two parcels near the neighborhood of Bay Shore. The Hayes Township zoning meeting for 14 September 2022, consequently, was canceled when Hayes Township rallied around a historical, generational community of hardworking people and made their voice heard. It is possible however that Manthei, or a different company will submit an application at a later time. For now the property will remain agricultural and in the possession of the Emmet County Road Commission, and not rezoned to industrial uses as Manthei originally proposed. A spokesperson for the residents stated, "It's still something that we have to be very vigilant about because we are incredibly worried right now. This has not been amended with the industrial zoning here. We've got the planning commission that is ready to release all the new ordinances and the master plan is severely flawed."
~ Resort Township's West Park in Bay Shore ~
The worn sign in the two photos below for Resort Township's West Park reads:
"Established in 1998, the 34-acre West Park provides a quiet and natural access point to Little Traverse Bay. Easily accessible via Townline Road, the park entrance is less than 1/4 mile from the Little Traverse Wheelway and US 31. The park features a paved parking area, restrooms, natural trails, and a protected picnic pavilion. Hike the .75 mile foot trail with an elevation drop of 115 feet that meanders through the hardwood forest before opening up to a grassy meadow and spectacular view of Lake Michigan. See what wildlife you can spot, enjoy a picnic in the pavilion, and search for Petoskey Stones on the 600 foot rocky Lake Michigan shore.
Located on land that was once part of a large cement plant, the township's West and East Park were made possible with funding from the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund, secured with assistance from the Little Traverse Conservancy."
"Established in 1998, the 34-acre West Park provides a quiet and natural access point to Little Traverse Bay. Easily accessible via Townline Road, the park entrance is less than 1/4 mile from the Little Traverse Wheelway and US 31. The park features a paved parking area, restrooms, natural trails, and a protected picnic pavilion. Hike the .75 mile foot trail with an elevation drop of 115 feet that meanders through the hardwood forest before opening up to a grassy meadow and spectacular view of Lake Michigan. See what wildlife you can spot, enjoy a picnic in the pavilion, and search for Petoskey Stones on the 600 foot rocky Lake Michigan shore.
Located on land that was once part of a large cement plant, the township's West and East Park were made possible with funding from the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund, secured with assistance from the Little Traverse Conservancy."
Two Photos Below: At the end of Townline Road, Bay Shore, Michigan,
on the bayside are some very rickety steps... appear unsafe;
and a gorgeous view even from the top of the steps.
on the bayside are some very rickety steps... appear unsafe;
and a gorgeous view even from the top of the steps.
~ Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant ~
Photo Above: The white sphere Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant ultimately rested on the shore of Lake Michigan off the point of Mud Lake... an extension of the west arm of Walloon Lake. The waters of Walloon never run directly into Lake Michigan, but rather flow to the foot of Walloon Lake to rush down the Bear River to reach Little Traverse Bay, there reaching Lake Michigan. The Power Plant no longer is visible because the plant was dismantled by 2006, although eight spent fuel casks remain still in 2022, as can be learned from the history presented below.
~ Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant Proposed ~
1959
1959
Photo Below: This Big Rock display was featured at the 1960 Emmet County Fair.
Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant was just beginning to be promoted.
Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant was just beginning to be promoted.
1961
1962
Click on the title above to access: This 1962 film about the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant [near Charlevoix, Michigan] features Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan -- who often worked for General Electric in this era -- as its narrator. The film was shown at the plant's visitor's center for many years, touting the benefits of atomic fission and showing the inner workings of the power plant. Workers are shown looking down into the reactor where a lead covered "head" shields them from radioactivity. Beneath this head are 56 fuel bundles, containing 144 rods filled with enriched uranium pellets. The power from this single load would roughly equal that which could be generated by burning 260,000 tons of coal...
1962
By 5 February 1962, the huge reactor for Big Rock was brought by train passing the depot at Depot Beach in Charlevoix. From there it was taken into the 130 foot containment sphere to be lowered into its concrete home. Big Rock was the first nuclear plant in Michigan and only the fifth in the country. It actually became a tourist attractions with over a million visitors from all over the world, before being decommissioned.
~ Consumer Power Company's Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant near Charlevoix, Michigan ~
(Near Bay Shore, Michigan)
(Postcards Below)
(Near Bay Shore, Michigan)
(Postcards Below)
"Michigan's FIRST operating nuclear plant went into full operation early in 1963 and has an electric generating capacity of 75,000 kilowatts. A public information center at the plant attar's thousands of visitors annually. Consumers Power Company provides electric service to some 1,000,000 customers throughout Michigan's Lower Peninsula."
1962
~ Big Rock Running Full Power for FIRST Time ~
1963
~ Big Rock Dedication ~
May 1963
Photo/Text Below: Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant was one of Northern MIcigan's many tourist attractions.
1968
Photo Below Labeled: "Big Rock - Nuclear Truck Mishap"
~ STRIKE ~
1969
~ Big Rock Open Invitation for Public to Visit ~
1970
~ Big Rock Future Plutonium Use Unknown by New Ruling ~
1976
~ Big Rock Leak ~
1979
1979
Aerial Photos Below:
April 1983
April 1983
~ Big Rock Celebrates 25th ~
1987
~ Feds Pledge Close Scrutiny of Big Rock Shutdown ~
1997
~ Fuel Bundles Stuck in Core at Big Rock Point ~
1997
~ Big Rock Finally Able to Remove Jammed Fuel ~
1997
~ Big Rock Moves Into Decommissioning Phase ~
1997
~ Chemical Concoction Helps Remove Radiation for Safer Dismantling ~
1998
1998
~ Big Rock Safety System was Broken 14 Years ~
1998
~ Can Big Rock Be Successfully Decommissioned? ~
1999
~ Nuclear Executives Gather at Big Rock ~
1999
1999
~ Nuclear Waste, NOT ~ Want NOT ~
2009
2009
Photo Above:
Posted only by Permission from Drone Photographer Charles Dawley, Up North Imaging
Drone Photography from Charles Dawley "Up North Imaging"
Posted only by Permission from Drone Photographer Charles Dawley, Up North Imaging
Drone Photography from Charles Dawley "Up North Imaging"
Photo Below:
The state historical marker for "Big Rock Point" was installed in 2007
in the G. Robert Adams Roadside Park near Charlevoix, Michigan... east of Burgess Road on US–31.
The state historical marker for "Big Rock Point" was installed in 2007
in the G. Robert Adams Roadside Park near Charlevoix, Michigan... east of Burgess Road on US–31.
The other side of the Big Rock Point historical marker from the photo below reads:
"BIG ROCK POINT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Consumers Power Company (later Consumers Energy) opened the Big Rock Point nuclear Power Plant just west of here in 1962. It was the world's first high-power density boiling water reactor, and the fifth commercial nuclear power plant in the U.S. The plant began as a research and development facility, with the first goal being to prove that nuclear power was economical. In addition to generating electricity, the reactor produced cobalt 60 that was used to treat an estimated 400,000 cancer patients. In 1991 the American Nuclear Society named the plant a Nuclear Historic Landmark. When it closed in 1997, Big Rock was the longest running nuclear plant in the nation. Consumers Energy later restored the site to a natural area."
"BIG ROCK POINT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Consumers Power Company (later Consumers Energy) opened the Big Rock Point nuclear Power Plant just west of here in 1962. It was the world's first high-power density boiling water reactor, and the fifth commercial nuclear power plant in the U.S. The plant began as a research and development facility, with the first goal being to prove that nuclear power was economical. In addition to generating electricity, the reactor produced cobalt 60 that was used to treat an estimated 400,000 cancer patients. In 1991 the American Nuclear Society named the plant a Nuclear Historic Landmark. When it closed in 1997, Big Rock was the longest running nuclear plant in the nation. Consumers Energy later restored the site to a natural area."
WHERE in the world are Big Rock's Nuclear Wastes Stored?
"The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, a political hot potato, is back"
according to this on-line report.
"The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, a political hot potato, is back"
according to this on-line report.
3 August 2018
~ Big Rock Deal ~
Entergy Corporation based in New Orleans, Louisiana, is set to sell the Big Rock Nuclear Site to Holtec International. Several arrangements with subsidiaries with licensing, and the decommissioning must transpire for the sale to proceed. Spent fuel remains on the site [Big Rock], and will become the responsibility and liability of Holtec. David McIntyre with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Public Affairs stated, "In recent years, Holtec has purchased several nuclear power plants that have permanently ceased operations, with the intention of decommissioning them fairly rapidly instead of waiting decades"... "They [Holtec] have entered into an agreement with Entergy to purchase the Palisades plant in Covert, Michigan, after it permanently shuts down in May [2022]. We [NRC] approved the license transfer last December [2021]. This purchase includes the spent fuel storage facility at Big Rock Point".... "The short answer is that nothing is going to happen anytime soon."
21 February 2022
Click HERE to view the entire article of the 21 February 2022 Channel 9 and 10 News report that "Big Rock Nuclear Plant Getting New Owners" stating: "Holtec International plans to take control of the old nuclear plant this summer.
Holtec International is a diversified energy technology company that specializes in commercial nuclear and solar energy. Their decommissioning unit, Holtec Decommissioning International, will hire armed security for the nuclear plant and will be in charge of disposing the left over nuclear waste.
All buildings were demolished and other equipment was removed from the site in 2006. Security guards and spent nuclear fuel is all that remains at the Charlevoix plant.
“I believe there’s about six casts of spent nuclear fuel up there in containers,” said Holtec’s Senior Manager of Government Affairs, Patrick O’Brien.
In an email sent out to city council members, Charlevoix City Manager Mark Heydlauff says the company had planned to transfer the remaining nuclear waste at Big Rock to a site in southern Michigan.
O’Brien says that isn’t in Holtec’s plans.
“Big Rock fuel coming downstate is not allowed by state law and it’s not something that we’re looking into,” O’Brien explained.
O’Brien states that companies like Holtec exist because the federal government hasn’t done what it promised.
Yucca Mountain in Nevada is a nuclear waste repository created by the federal government in 1987. The repository was for spent nuclear fuel and other radioactive waste from nuclear plants around the U.S.
According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, Yucca Mountain was shutdown in 2010 without any safety or technical issues cited.
Holtec plans to eventually move the rest of the nuclear waste from Big Rock to their repository in New Mexico.
The Big Rock purchase is expected to be final by June [2022], with the closing of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant downstate in Covert Township"
Holtec International is a diversified energy technology company that specializes in commercial nuclear and solar energy. Their decommissioning unit, Holtec Decommissioning International, will hire armed security for the nuclear plant and will be in charge of disposing the left over nuclear waste.
All buildings were demolished and other equipment was removed from the site in 2006. Security guards and spent nuclear fuel is all that remains at the Charlevoix plant.
“I believe there’s about six casts of spent nuclear fuel up there in containers,” said Holtec’s Senior Manager of Government Affairs, Patrick O’Brien.
In an email sent out to city council members, Charlevoix City Manager Mark Heydlauff says the company had planned to transfer the remaining nuclear waste at Big Rock to a site in southern Michigan.
O’Brien says that isn’t in Holtec’s plans.
“Big Rock fuel coming downstate is not allowed by state law and it’s not something that we’re looking into,” O’Brien explained.
O’Brien states that companies like Holtec exist because the federal government hasn’t done what it promised.
Yucca Mountain in Nevada is a nuclear waste repository created by the federal government in 1987. The repository was for spent nuclear fuel and other radioactive waste from nuclear plants around the U.S.
According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, Yucca Mountain was shutdown in 2010 without any safety or technical issues cited.
Holtec plans to eventually move the rest of the nuclear waste from Big Rock to their repository in New Mexico.
The Big Rock purchase is expected to be final by June [2022], with the closing of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant downstate in Covert Township"
5 March 2022
~ "No Immediate Plans to Remove Nuclear Waste from Big Rock Point" ~
Charlevoix Courier's reporter Annie Doyle stated: "Recently, the city [Charlevoix] received notice from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the Dec. 23, 2020 application from Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC requesting transfer of control of the operating licenses for the Palisades Nuclear Plant and for Big Rock Point Plant would be granted. Both plants' licenses are currently held by Entergy Nuclear Operations."
Additional information to that below may be accessed by clicking HERE.
"Dr. Kris Singh, is the Chairman of the Board of Holtec International which he established in 1986, in New Jersey, and later relocated to Jupiter, Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1972), a M.S. in Engineering Mechanics also from Penn (1969), and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from BIT Sindri (Ranchi University), India (1967). Over 120 nuclear plants around the world employ Holtec’s systems and equipment, many based on Dr. Singh’s patents. In recent years, Dr. Singh has been leading Holtec in the global race to develop a “walk away safe” small modular reactor to make nuclear energy an economical green power alternative. Dr. Singh serves on the Board of the Nuclear Energy Institute (1998-present), and the Cooper Health System (2013-present). He is also a Director of the Washington, DC-based Atlantic Council and a member of the “National Investment Council” that advises the President of Ukraine." This advisement is interesting in that Russia's Putin on 3 March 2022, within his invasion of Ukraine bombed Kiev's Zuprive nuclear power plant offices, and has the nuclear reactor completely surrounded by Russia's military.
Click HERE to read an on-line 8 October 2017 article titled: "Indian-American Entrepreneur [Dr. Kris Singh] Offers Fast-Track Mini Nuclear Reactors to India". Dr. Singh already had started the ground work in a few countries including UAE, Canada, and Ukraine in this direction of small nuclear reactors being used as the cheapest and most reliable source of green energy worldwide.... Constructing each of these small nuclear reactors costs USD 1 billion. But if made in India, the cost could be far less, he said. "The Indian labor is cheaper...so the construction cost would be less. You should reasonably expect between 20 to 30 per cent reduction in cost as we go forward," said Dr Singh, who earned his engineering degree from BIT Sindri, which is now in Jharkhand.
The ProPublica web site reported 23 May 2019 regarding "A False Answer, A Big Political Connection and $260 Million in Tax Breaks" for Holtec International. Read this interesting connection by clicking HERE. Another ProPublica article from 2 July 2019 may be accessed by clicking HERE.
Additional information to that below may be accessed by clicking HERE.
"Dr. Kris Singh, is the Chairman of the Board of Holtec International which he established in 1986, in New Jersey, and later relocated to Jupiter, Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1972), a M.S. in Engineering Mechanics also from Penn (1969), and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from BIT Sindri (Ranchi University), India (1967). Over 120 nuclear plants around the world employ Holtec’s systems and equipment, many based on Dr. Singh’s patents. In recent years, Dr. Singh has been leading Holtec in the global race to develop a “walk away safe” small modular reactor to make nuclear energy an economical green power alternative. Dr. Singh serves on the Board of the Nuclear Energy Institute (1998-present), and the Cooper Health System (2013-present). He is also a Director of the Washington, DC-based Atlantic Council and a member of the “National Investment Council” that advises the President of Ukraine." This advisement is interesting in that Russia's Putin on 3 March 2022, within his invasion of Ukraine bombed Kiev's Zuprive nuclear power plant offices, and has the nuclear reactor completely surrounded by Russia's military.
Click HERE to read an on-line 8 October 2017 article titled: "Indian-American Entrepreneur [Dr. Kris Singh] Offers Fast-Track Mini Nuclear Reactors to India". Dr. Singh already had started the ground work in a few countries including UAE, Canada, and Ukraine in this direction of small nuclear reactors being used as the cheapest and most reliable source of green energy worldwide.... Constructing each of these small nuclear reactors costs USD 1 billion. But if made in India, the cost could be far less, he said. "The Indian labor is cheaper...so the construction cost would be less. You should reasonably expect between 20 to 30 per cent reduction in cost as we go forward," said Dr Singh, who earned his engineering degree from BIT Sindri, which is now in Jharkhand.
The ProPublica web site reported 23 May 2019 regarding "A False Answer, A Big Political Connection and $260 Million in Tax Breaks" for Holtec International. Read this interesting connection by clicking HERE. Another ProPublica article from 2 July 2019 may be accessed by clicking HERE.
Here is the 30 April 2021 "Nuclear Power Plant Infrastructure Evaluations" for Removal of Spent Nuclear Fuel...
Click HERE to view information shown below.
The above web site has multiple photos of the Big Rock Nuclear Site over the years on pages 69 through 89.
Click HERE to view information shown below.
The above web site has multiple photos of the Big Rock Nuclear Site over the years on pages 69 through 89.
With this quote below from the 7 March 2022 Energy Wire News titled: "Ukraine crisis: 3rd site targeted; Manchin talks" it does not seem so far-fetched to wonder about a connection between Holtec International buying up spent nuclear fuel from decommissioned nuclear power plants... and to further wonder how this is connected from Holtec International/Dr. Singh AND Ukraine? Read the entire article by clicking HERE.
Since 26 June 2007 Holtec Ukraine has been a division of Holtec International. Ukraine forms a key part of Holtec’s project execution team for the Ukraine Spent Fuel Storage Facility and Chernobyl Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-2), the world’s largest dry fuel storage facility. Click HERE for additional information like that below.
"Ukraine produces more than half of its country’s electrical energy from its 15 nuclear reactors and boasts Europe’s third largest commercial nuclear program. The ability to control and safely manage its used fuel on its own territory is a strategic need as well as a matter of financial prudence for Ukraine in light of the fact that the in-country fuel storage facility is projected to accrue Energoatom some $200 million each year in today’s dollars through avoided payment to the Russian Federation. 'The soon-to-be-commissioned CSFSF is a fitting symbol of Ukraine’s resolve to achieve complete operational independence in regard to management of its spent fuel discharged by the country’s fleet of reactors and provide a safe and economic solution for long-term management of used nuclear fuel at its domestic centralized storage facility. This facility will make Ukraine an international leader in consolidated storage of spent nuclear fuel,' says Holtec’s Vice President of Ukraine Operations, Mr. Riaz Awan."
"Ukraine produces more than half of its country’s electrical energy from its 15 nuclear reactors and boasts Europe’s third largest commercial nuclear program. The ability to control and safely manage its used fuel on its own territory is a strategic need as well as a matter of financial prudence for Ukraine in light of the fact that the in-country fuel storage facility is projected to accrue Energoatom some $200 million each year in today’s dollars through avoided payment to the Russian Federation. 'The soon-to-be-commissioned CSFSF is a fitting symbol of Ukraine’s resolve to achieve complete operational independence in regard to management of its spent fuel discharged by the country’s fleet of reactors and provide a safe and economic solution for long-term management of used nuclear fuel at its domestic centralized storage facility. This facility will make Ukraine an international leader in consolidated storage of spent nuclear fuel,' says Holtec’s Vice President of Ukraine Operations, Mr. Riaz Awan."
The 6 September 2022 issue of the Petoskey News Review published Associated Press article headlined "Ukraine nuke plant taken offline," stating: "Kyiv, Ukraine–Europe's largest nuclear plant was knocked off Ukraine's electricity grid Monday [5 September 2022], its last transmission line disconnected because of a fire caused by shelling, the facility's operator and the U.N. atomic watchdog said. The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was informed Monday by Ukrainian authorities that the reserve line 'was deliberately disconnected in order to extinguish a fire.' The line itself is not damaged, and it will be reconnected once the fire is extinguished."
The Associated Press' reporter Susan Montoya Bryan headlined her 16 March 2022
article summarized below
"Watchdog has concerns with projects at repository"
"The Government Accountability Office outlined the concerns in its report, noting that the U.S. Energy Department is not required to develop a corrective action plan for addressing the root causes of challenges at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southern New Mexico." Presently [2022], a multimillion-dollar project is underway at the plant to install a new ventilation system so that full operations can resume, following a radiation leak in 2014 that forced the repository's closure for nearly three years.
The Palisades Nuclear Plant ceased operations Friday, 20 May 2022, Entergy Corp. announced. It was shut down sooner than the originally scheduled 31 May 2022 date due to "the performance of a control rod drive seal." The plant had been in operation near South Haven, Michigan, since 1971.
The 13 September 2022 Petoskey News Review [Holland Sentinel by-line] reported: "Plant again reopens palisades plant announced just months after closure." and "Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Energy on Friday, Sept. 9, supporting Holtec International's application for a grant that would reopen the plant. New Jersey-based Holtec International (CEO Kris Singh) purchased the plant from Entergy in June." and "The sale also included the former Big Rock Point nuclear plant near Charlevoix, which decommissioned in the early 2000s and whose site on Lake Michigan now includes only large concrete-and-steel casks holding the plant's radioactive used fuel. It is not known if that facility is affected" by the plans for Palisades.
Jimmy Owen Bowman of Charlevoix passed away 21 October 2022.
Jimmy served honorably in the US Coast Guard for 23 years before working with
Burns Security at the Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant for over 20 years.
Jimmy served honorably in the US Coast Guard for 23 years before working with
Burns Security at the Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant for over 20 years.
~ Bay Shore SAC Radar Station ~
~ Portent of Things to Come ~
(Hurley, Wisconsin)
(Hurley, Wisconsin)
31 January 1963
~ Bombing Runs ~
Seven Photos Below:
Bay Shore USAF Base ~ Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey Newspapers (1965)
Bay Shore USAF Base ~ Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey Newspapers (1965)
The "RADOMES"
The 8 January 1971 Petoskey News Review had an in-depth report of
the Bomber Crash in Little Traverse Bay which included the three photo items directly below.
the Bomber Crash in Little Traverse Bay which included the three photo items directly below.
Article Below from 14 August 1978 ~ Petoskey News Review:
After the 1971 horrendous B-52 bomber crash, Bay Shore residents campaigned for the base to remain in Bay Shore.
The base remained with the headline below reporting in 1978 "Bombers hit Bay Shore daily."
After the 1971 horrendous B-52 bomber crash, Bay Shore residents campaigned for the base to remain in Bay Shore.
The base remained with the headline below reporting in 1978 "Bombers hit Bay Shore daily."
Article Above: Research regarding Powell Wyoming new site for the Bay Shore Radar Site RADOMES
may be accessed by clicking HERE.
may be accessed by clicking HERE.
~ A Look Back in 1990 at the Air Force Base in Bay Shore ~
The slideshow below includes photos of the Air Force Base in Bay Shore...
taken by the Petoskey News Review in November 1990.
The slideshow below includes photos of the Air Force Base in Bay Shore...
taken by the Petoskey News Review in November 1990.
The Bay Shore radar station closed by 1985.
~ B-52 Memorial Plaque ~
The B-52 Crash Memorial is located on the Lake Michigan Shore Roadside Park
near the Bay Shore SAC Bomber Training Site
north of Charlevoix MI on US 31.
At the time of the crash, the Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant was extremely close by.
(The plant has since been dismantled.)
Additional information about this tragedy, with crew members' names can be found on the
Charlevoix Emmet History web site on the
B-52 BOMBER CRASH OVER LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY web page.
B-52 Memorial Plaque
IN MEMORIUM
99TH BOMBARDMENT WING/SAC
WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE, MASS.
346/348 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRONS
THE FOLLOWING B-52 CREW MEMBERS GAVE THEIR
LIVES ON A TRAINING MISSION OVER LAKE MICHIGAN
JANUARY 7, 1971
Charlevoix Emmet History web site on the
B-52 BOMBER CRASH OVER LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY web page.
B-52 Memorial Plaque
IN MEMORIUM
99TH BOMBARDMENT WING/SAC
WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE, MASS.
346/348 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRONS
THE FOLLOWING B-52 CREW MEMBERS GAVE THEIR
LIVES ON A TRAINING MISSION OVER LAKE MICHIGAN
JANUARY 7, 1971