The sandsucker barge Kathryn is shown approaching the old Erie Bell dock in Chippawa Creek ; pleasure boats in the foreground and people at the dock ; an American can be seen flying on a hidden small boat (right) ;
-Macklem Factories & Smoke Stack - right side of picture; - Knight Family Home: center of picture, located on corner of Chippawa Parkway & Portage Road ( north west corner )
Five canoes are shown boating in Chippawa Creek, The MCR [Michigan Central Railway bridge is in the background ; Left front canoe inlcudes: Thomas Greenwood, Louise Ackerman, Mrs. Greenwood; Left Upper Canoe: Thomas Downey & unknown; Upper right canoes': Hardy Gerber & Deak Greenwood ; tw small motor boats are shown tied up at the boat house centre right ;
- built in 1850, by Dr. Thomas Clark Macklem, it was his family residence, a home for smugglers, an army barracks during W.W.I., and a tourist camp before it was destroyed by fire on November 16, 1927
A two storey house is located left ; businesses in the house are E G McNally Drugs and Furniture Warerooms ; a man is standing ouside the awning over the drug store wearing short sleeved shirt and dark pants ; railway tracks in foreground ; dirt road is lined by mature trees ; another business partially hidden by trees is located right ; this building was also the site of the original Royal Bank in Chippawa ;