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Southwest of Burt Lake a few miles off M-68 is the Ohioville Cemetery. The sign shows it was established in 1882. From what I could find on the maps and my reference books there was no town in Michigan called Ohioville. Many of the veterans tombstones in the historic cemetery show that they were in
A few blocks northeast of the Flint Truck and Bus assembly plant is a small park with a memorial to the Sit Down Strike. On December 30th, 1936 the workers at General Motor’s Fisher Body Plant stopped production and barricaded themselves inside the plant. They learned the company was going to move the dies that
This stone marker stands in Clapp Memorial Park in St Louis, Michigan. It declares that it is the geographical center of the Lower Peninsula. It stands near another stone that has a plaque on the top of hit that reads: Sidney S. Hastings placed this stone here in 1876 to mark the geographical center of
On Bay Street in Sebewaing near the Christ the King Lutheran School is a house like building with a concert structure that looks like a log cabin attached to it. It is the Luckhard Museum and The Indian Mission. In 1845 three Lutheran missionaries Rev. Johann J. F. Auch, Rev. J. Simon Dumser, and Rev.
Next to the parking lot for the Sturgeon Point Lighthouse is the Bailey School. It is a one-room schoolhouse originally operated west of Mikado. The Norway pine structure was built in 1907 and it is one of the few remaining one-room log schoolhouses still standing in Michigan. The schoolhouse closed after the 1940-41 school year
The Tweddle Schoolhouse sits along M-22 about 2 miles south of Empire. It was built around 1895 and served the little farming community in the region until the schools were consolidated. After that, the school was converted to a residence. It has two front doors because one is for boys and one for girls. The
At the southern end of the Traverse City Commons near the historic barns is a stone marker for the world champion cow Traverse Colantha Walker. Before it became the commons the buildings and the property were the Northern Michigan Asylum. It was a self sufficient asylum with barns and crops to care for the nearly
The town of Ironwood in the Upper Peninsula sits next to the Wisconsin border. About a mile south of downtown is a small park with an enormous statue. It is of Hiawatha, a legendary leader of the Iroquois Confederacy, and a sign below the statue declares it to be the world’s tallest Indian. The park
Hagar Park sits in Jenison located west of Grand Rapids. It is in this Ottawa county park that you will find a landscaped field with the shape of a map of the United States. It even has some of the rivers and mountains shaped into it. I tried to get a pic of it but
I was driving the backroads around the old Wurtsmith Air Force Base and it was fascinating to see the jumbo jets parked along the fence. Since the base was deactivated the hangars and runway are being used by Kalitta Air. An air cargo transportation company started by drag racer Connie Kalitta. The base is used
