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Cordwood Point
Cordwood Point is a promontory of Cheboygan County that extends out into Lake Huron. Located east of Cheboygan, it marks the east end of the South Channel, the southernmost navigational channel of the Straits of Mackinac. The point has been subdivided into real estate for cabins and summer residences. U.S. Highway 23 serves the point and its small settlement. The point's name reflects the need of pioneer steamboats to be fueled with cordwood. Small steamboats would stop here at now-long-vanished wharves and fuel up. Later technology moved the primary fuel supply of Lake Huron steamboats from wood to coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ..., and the cordwood trade dwindled and died. When the county was organized into townships, Cordwood Point became part of Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cord Of Wood
Cord or CORD may refer to: People * Alex Cord (1933–2021), American actor and writer * Chris Cord (born 1940), American racing driver * Errett Lobban Cord (1894–1974) American industrialist * Ronnie Cord (1943–1986), Brazilian singer * Cord McCoy (born 1980), American bull and saddle bronc rider * Cord Meyer (1920–2001), American CIA official * Cord Parks (born 1986), American professional football player * Cord Phelps (born 1987), American professional baseball player * Cord Pool, guitarist for American red dirt metal band Texas Hippie Coalition * Cord Widderich (died 1447), German pirate Arts and entertainment * Cord (band), a British rock group * ''Cord'' (film), a 2000 film starring Daryl Hannah and Jennifer Tilly * Edwin Cord, a Marvel Comics character * Cordero "Cord" Buchanon, a fictional character in the American soap opera '' One Life to Live'' CORD * Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders, a non-profit health organization * Christian Outreach for Rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
