Station Frankfort, Michigan
Coast Guard Station #263
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Location:
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North side entrance of Frankfort Harbor, Michigan.
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Date of Conveyance
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1883
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Station Built:
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1886
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Fate:
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Transferred to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Remarks:
Coast Guard Station Frankfort was established May 4, 1882. The original sites for the station were acquired by deeds dated November 1883 and June 1898 from Henry Day. These sites were at the south side of the harbor entrance at Frankfort.
In 1929 it was proposed locating the station on the north side of the harbor entrance. The new site was conveyed by deed dated January 25, 1929 from the Ann Arbor Railroad Company. The old site was used on a lease basis until sufficient funds for buildings on the new site became available. On March 31, 1934, the Railroad conveyed a site containing 2.7 acres in exchange for the site chosen in 1929.
Keepers:
Thomas E. Matthews was appointed keeper on 12 January 1887 and was discharged on 16 January 1892.
George Morency was appointed keeper on 1 February 1892 and left in 1915.
George C. Robinson was appointed keeper in 1915.
Sources:
Station History File, CG Historian’s Office
Dennis L. Noble & Michael S. Raynes. “Register of the Stations and Keepers of the U.S. Life-Saving Service.” Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.
Ralph Shanks, Wick York & Lisa Woo Shanks. The U.S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard. Petaluma, CA: Costaño Books, 1996.
U.S. Treasury Department: Coast Guard. Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets and Ships and Stations of the United States Coast Guard, July 1, 1941. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1941.