The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 6

PAGE SIX THE ESCANABA DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 1015 KOSSIS GHOST LUMBER TOWN 2,000 Persons Resided In Menominee River Community A thriving small city in the heart of bustling lumber industry. Koss, today is a ghost town. Barely a 07 houses still stand i in the town that once was home to nearly 2,000 persons and as a i shopping area for another 15.000 who lived in logging camps and settlements for miles around. Koss, first known as Fisher, is on the Menominee river about 25 miles north of Marinette and six) miles west of Ingalls.

The village was platti with streets laid ing at the river Name were Harrison, Coleman liams. Stanley Langill inee has in his possession print of the plat, dated ii He owns property in at one and has a cottage on the edge of the village at the river. Koss was founded in 1893. it was recalled by Sam Markevich I of Mai incite, one ot the early set- tiers who operated the Worcester department store. First known as Fisher, the village was changed after the government I termed it posioflice.

The name Fisher was taken from that I of Kuh, Nathan and Fisher, a Chicago clothing manufacturing concern which bought a logging line i and made it into a railroad. An- I other settlement named for Kuh was abandoned years later, while still another, named for Nathan, is still in existence. Desired to be Magnate Abraham Kuh, after whom the one place was named, was an uncle of the father of William Kuh, former Marinette first name was Adolph. and he was originally from neat Lancaster, Wis. Fisher according to William Kuh.

had a burning ambition to a railroad magnate. He war a wealthy man when he un- dei took the building of a railroad. but was nearly broke when he finished with it. Interest in Nathan was minor but Fisher was the prime mover. into existence after the C.

H. Worcester company established a saw and planing mill on the site, attracting thousands of loggers to the locality. Today a small lumber iurn operates in the village. The homes are occupied mostly by old age pensioners, although Mrs. John Ewinetski, who moved there recently from Chicago, said that a few of the residents still work as loggers.

Her husband is a painter and decorator. Road Employed Thousands After the Chicago businessmen bought the logging road which inn into Koss, they immediately began expanding it. Out of their railroad operations was born the Wisconsin-Michigan railroad, which operated mainly between Marinette and Iron Mountain. Its headquarters was in Peshtlgo where about 1,000 persons were employed at one time, in addition to other thousands over the system. Mackevich said.

The logging mill and the lumber yard were by fire in 1900. One entire street was lost in the blaze. The town was not rebuilt as the Worcester company started new logging operations at Chassel, Mich. Mackevich remained in Koss for two years, winding up the Worcester company business. Good Agricultural Community The loggers began moving out, and within two or three years, Koss had become only a shell of the thriving community which sprung up in the logging community a decade before.

Mackevich entered the retail business in Marinette 30 years ago after being in business in Peshtigo and Bark River. Overcame Handicap Although totally blind, E. A. Burdett, of Wayne, N. built a seven-room, two-story house, doing all the work with exception of the masonry and plumbing.

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