The second part of the three-part series on the Ford Motor Company in Kingsford will be presented from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday by local historian William Cummings. Above is the Ford plant sawmill.

IRON MOUNTAIN — The second of a three-part PowerPoint history of the Iron Mountain Ford Motor Company plant in Kingsford will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Dickinson County Library in Iron Mountain by local historian Bill Cummings.

The program is free.

Topics covered in the second part will include the housing shortage, the development of the Ford Addition, the establishment of the chemical plant, the Ford Motor Company Industrial Hospital, the Ford Motor Company Clubhouse, the Ford Dam, the Ford Airport, the end of the Model T era in May 1927, the Model A era and the development and production of wooden station wagon bodies.

An article in the June 5, 1924, edition of the Iron Mountain News announced that plans and specifications for a new sawmill at Ford Plant had been prepared and submitted to contractors for bids. Ray V. Dudley, a Ford Motor Company executive, said this larger sawmill would be located between the sawmill built in 1920-1921 and the lumber transfer.

The new sawmill would measure 76 feet by 260 feet. The new structure eliminated re-handling of lumber necessary under the new Ford system of cutting the lumber green and drying the parts in the kilns.

An article in the Sept. 17, 1924, edition of the Iron Mountain News noted production was well under way in the Ford Motor Company’s newly erected sawmill. The new sawmill was operating three shifts, employing about 100 men per shift, and was rapidly attaining high production levels.

The chain haulage brought in the logs from the hot pond at the extreme left at the end of the building, indicating the photograph above probably shows the new sawmill in operation, dating this postcard between 1924 and 1930.