A small village in a vast and rugged land with dense forests of white pine, many lakes and rivers and bold rock outcroppings, Havelock was named after the famous British general Henry Havelock (1795-1857). The original village was started with the surveying of Belmont Township in 1823. The current village of about thirteen-hundred people was […]

Though small, the wood burning locomotives of early railroad days had a tremendous appetite, their tenders had a limited capacity thus ‘wooding up’ stations were required at regular intervals along the right-of-way to replenish fuel, it would take a cord of wood every 35 miles.  Many a settler earned his first cash income by supplying the […]