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The County Farm

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Barns and Farms .

I was roaming the backroads near Greenville and I came upon this enormous farmhouse. I figured out it was the old Montcalm county poor farm since it was on County Farm Road.  It was a different time in our society when people went to live on the farm and worked to support themselves. The old

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The Michigan House where you could “Shoot Your Eye Out”

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Houses .

This brick house with the gingerbread style roof and beautiful stained glass windows was constructed in downtown Plymouth in 1875. It was built for Henry William Baker who was the president of the Plymouth Iron Windmill Company. With windmill sales struggling the company decided to giveaway an air rifle with the purchase of every windmill. 

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The Ghost Town of Podunk

Posted on March 3, 2021 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Ghost towns .
Podunk Michigan school house

Yes, there is a town in Michigan called Podunk. Actually, there are a couple of towns, in a few different counties called Podunk. This old schoolhouse in the forgotten town of Podunk is a few miles northwest of Gladwin. I could not find any info about the town other than the name and location, I

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The Iron Bars of Boyne Falls

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Haunted Places, Parks .

I see a lot of interesting things at local parks around Michigan. From historic monuments to old locomotives but the park in Boyne Falls has some old jail cells on dislplay. They go back to the lumbering days when they needed to incarcerate rowdy lumberjacks. It is rather strange to see them in a park

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St Joseph Lighthouse

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Lighthouses .

The first lighthouse in St. Joesph was erected in 1832 on the shoreline and was the second lighthouse constructed on Lake Michigan. Two piers were extended out into the lake in 1870 to protect the ships entering the St. Joseph River, and a beacon was placed at the pier-head. In the early 1900s, the war

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Huron City Church

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Churches .

Near the tip of the thumb along the Lake Huron shoreline is the historic town of Huron City. No one lives in the former town but it is not a ghost town. It has been converted into a museum consisting of several historic buildings. One of them is this historic church that served as the

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The Memorial Log Lodge

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in State Parks, Winter Wonderland .

In 1927, Mrs. Karen Hartwick donated land to the state of Michigan In honor of her husband Major Edward E. Hartwick, who died in action during World War I.  The land was used to create Hartwick Pines state park.  In 1929, the Department began construction this building as a memorial to Mrs. Hartwick’s husband. However,

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The Haunted Sage Library

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Haunted Places, Library .
Sage Library bay city michigan

Near the Historic Midland Street district in Bay City is the magnificent brick Sage Library.  A green Michigan historical marker stands in front of it giving a little history of the building. Henry W. Sage (1814-1897) founded the village of Wenona (later West Bay City) in 1863. A merchant and philanthropist, he was also a

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Meads Mill Ruins

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Forgotten Places, Winter Wonderland .

These old stone ruins on the Middle River Rouge stand in Hines Park in Northville. The sign nearby reads Meads Mill but I have read that they were not part of the mill. According to Nailhed.com they were part of a 1937 Works Progress Administration project. It was built as a waterwheel and intake site

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The Michigan Relics Hoax

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in people .

In 1890, James O. Scotford, a sign painter living in the central Michigan town of Edmore, claimed to have found a strange clay cup and carved tablets in the ground near his home. As he found more ancient artifacts he started drawing the attention of investors who purchased the strange objects with intention of making

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