Hammond Station Site
Rogers City, MI
Also known as Forty-Mile Point (1874-1882); Hammond's Bay (1883-1902); Hammond (1903-1947)
The Hammond Station Site site was established in 1876
Station closed in 1947. Station was occupied by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under a 1951 permit from the Coast Guard. Transferred to the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Department of the Interior in 1971 and is the Hammond Bay Biological Station.
Station Site Notes:
1874 site secured, plans and specs being prepared; 1875 contract entered into, building rapidly progressing; 1876 completed and occupied by crews (USLSS Annual Reports). Station decommissioned in the spring of 1947. The reservation and all buildings were subsequently occupied by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under a permit granted on March 21, 1950. Transferred to the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Department of the Interior in 1971 (USCG Historian's Website).
Buildings at this Station Site
The 1897 station house is surviving at this site