Laughing Whitefish River
The Laughing Whitefish River (not to be confused with the
Deerton, Michigan. The total watershed of the Laughing Whitefish River is 36 square miles (93 km2).[citation needed
]
A notable attraction near
Sundell is the Laughing Whitefish Falls State Park.[2] The Nature Conservancy has established a 1,728-acre (7 km2) preserve that includes three-quarters of the lake as well as over 1,000 acres (4 km2) of surrounding wetlands and upland forest.[1]
The access site to the river is named after John Hammar who was the handyman for George Shiras III, who (Shiras) is credited with the development of flash photography, and was widely acclaimed at the St.Louis World Fair in 1904, and won the gold medal.
Jurist John D. Voelker, a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, published the novel Laughing Whitefish in 1965 under his pen name, Robert Traver.
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed January 3, 2012
- ^ "ParkList". Archived from the original on 2006-03-19. Retrieved 2006-06-10.
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