I grew up on this farm in the 30s and 40s. The barn and house are still there, but the far left chicken coop and middle, a woodshed, are gone, down the hillside! The upper barn was for storing hay, the lower level a row of stanchions which each one held a cow in place while being milked. Also horses were housed in the winter, sometimes pigs. The land was purchased by my grandfather, dr. Earl Fairbanks of Luther, for my father Earl jr. in about 1913, my parents married 1915 and lived their entire lives there. I am their youngest child and still own the buildings and one half of the original land which borders cool lake, once called stronach lake after the stronach lumberjacks who cut timber and rolled it down the hill into the lake to be floated from there across the lake and down the creek to mainstream.

The logs were floated to Manistee to the lumber mill, not "mainstream".