© courtesy Mark Hildebrandt

Traveling the Chain of Lakes

When trains, water taxis linked cottages

by Grace Shackman

At rush hour the railroad underpass in Dexter turns into a bottleneck, as people who live north of the village come and go on their daily commute. Many of them live in lake homes, either converted cottages or new houses, on the Huron River's Chain of Lakes. In contrast to today's solo road warriors, a century ago families took a slower but more leisurely trip by