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Ocqueoc Falls

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Waterfalls .

 

ocqueoc falls onaway michigan

Ocqueoc Falls

I love taking photos of Waterfalls but most of them are in the U.P. and a long trip for the weekend for me. Did you Know Ocqueoc Falls is in the L.P. I was traveling between Onaway and Rogers City and came across the falls, I knew there was a waterfall in the area but forgot about it until I saw the sign. It is a wonder full waterfall and park that was recently updated with a new outhouse, which I was badly in need of and I will say works fine. oops TMI as my kids would say. Anyways there is a nice hiking path there too.

I will be honest with you and say this is not my best pic, I prefer to take waterfall pics on a cloudy day but I wast there and this is what I got, and oh yeah, did I mention it’s in the Lower Peninsula, I can make it over there again and get some more pics.

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I Might Be Crazy, But at least I am not Eating Road Kill

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Forgotten Places, Houses .

 

abandoned farm house

My wife went with me on this recent trip around the south west part of the state, I think she was thinking it would be a mini vacation, but I thought she was hanging out with me while I was, what I call, working. I don’t think she was planning on me  driving  all around taking as many pics as I did. After having been on the road for 8 hours of driving and visiting a plethora of places, we were heading down 79 to Charlotte. I saw a car on the side of the road and a guy wondering about, then out of the corner of my eye I saw an old farm house. It was your average abandoned farm house and abandoned houses go. Your typical busted windows and paint pealing with the grass and landscaping growing wild from years of neglect, but I stopped and took a pic (from the road, I don’t trespass). At this point I am sure my wife was thinking I was crazy, but I got a few pics, then I noticed the guy down the road had a stick and was checking out the fresh road kill. I got to thinking, I may be a little crazy but at least I am not inspecting road kill crazy. I’m wondering if he was looking for something fresh for dinner that night. If he was, then I am thinking he should make a trip to Wahjamega for professional help.

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Columbiaville Depot – Michigan Historical Marker

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Michigan Historical Markers, Train Depots .

 

columbiaville train station depot

In the nineteenth century, railroads provided the prime transportation link between small villages and the rest of the country. The first Columbiaville depot was built near this site in 1872. In 1893 William Peter (1824-1899) replaced that structure with this Romanesque inspired depot with its rounded arch, beveled-glass windows. Peter, Columbiaville’s dominant merchant and a millionaire lumber baron, built the depot in an effort to spur the development of the village and assure the continued growth of his many businesses. By prior agreement, he gave the building to the Detroit-Bay City Railroad Company in exchange for having a line run through the community. The property was deeded to the company for one dollar in 1893. It served as a train station until 1964. The depot now houses the Columbiaville Rotary Club and a public library.

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The Medical Miracle at Mackinac Island

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Historic Places, Michigan Historical Markers .

Mackinac Island fur store dr Beaumont

On June 6, 1822, an employee of the American Fur Company on Mackinac Island, named Alexis St. Martin, was accidentally shot in the stomach by a discharge of a shotgun loaded with a buck shot from close range that injured his ribs and his stomach. Dr. Beaumont treated his wound, but expected St. Martin to die from his injuries.  Despite this dire prediction, St. Martin survived – but with a hole in his stomach that never fully healed. Unable to continue work for the American Fur Company, he was hired as a handyman by Dr. Beaumont.

By August 1825, Beaumont had been relocated to Fort Niagara in New York, and Alexis St. Martin had come with him. Beaumont recognized that he had in St. Martin the unique opportunity to observe digestive processes. Dr. Beaumont began to perform experiments on digestion using the stomach of St. Martin. Most of the experiments were conducted by tying a piece of food to a string and inserting it through the hole into St. Martin’s stomach. Every few hours, Beaumont would remove the food and observe how well it had been digested. Beaumont also extracted a sample of gastric acid from St. Martin’s stomach for analysis. In September, Alexis St. Martin left Dr. Beaumont and moved to Canada, leaving Beaumont to concentrate on his duties as an army surgeon. Beaumont also used samples of stomach acid taken out of St. Martin to “digest” bits of food in cups. This led to the important discovery that the stomach acid, and not solely the mashing, pounding and squeezing of the stomach, digests the food into nutrients the stomach can use; in other words, digestion was primarily a chemical process and not a mechanical one.

During 1826 and 1827, Dr. Beaumont was stationed at Fort Howard in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1828 he was transferred to St. Louis, Missouri. While en route to St. Louis, Alexis St. Martin was ordered to stop at Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, to serve as Dr. Beaumont’s handyman again. In early 1831, Dr. Beaumont conducted another set of experiments on St. Martin’s stomach, ranging from the simple observation of normal digestion to the effects that temperature, exercise and even emotions have on the digestive process.

Beaumont published the account of his experiments in 1833, as Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion. He and St. Martin parted ways, with Beaumont eventually going to St. Louis, Missouri, and St. Martin to his home in Quebec province, Canada. Off and on for the next twenty years, Beaumont tried to get St. Martin to move to St. Louis, but the move never occurred.

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The Michigan Historical Marker next to the American Fur store reads:

On June 6, 1822, Alexis St. Martin (1804 ~ 1889), a French Canadian voyageur, was accidentally shot in the American Fur Company store located on this site.. Dr. William Beaumont (1786 ~ 1853), The Fort Mackinac post surgeon nursed St. Martin back to health. St. Martin’s wound healed, leaving a permanent opening into his stomach. Through this opening Beaumont compared the digestibility of foods, recorded the temperature of the stomach under different conditions, and extracted and analyzed gastric juices. Beaumont conducted the first of 250 experiments with St. Martin in 1825 in the Officers’ Stone Quarters at Fort Mackinac. Eight years later he published a groundbreaking book on his discovery of the digestive process.

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The Magnificent Hurlbut Memorial Gate in Detroit

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Detroit, Historic Places .

 

Hurlbut gate Detroit Michigan

When Detroit Grocer Chauncey Hurlbut died in 1885, he willed the bulk of his fortune, some $250,000, to beautify Waterworks Park on Jefferson Ave. The architectural philosophies of the era called for construction of monumental gates at the entrances to public places and part of Hurlbut’s fortune was used to construct just such a gate.

Herman A. Brede and Gustave Mueller were chosen to design this gate at a cost of $30,000.  The structure is a three tiered triumphal arch, 132 feet (40 m) in length, 40 feet (12 m) in depth, and over 50 feet (15 m) high, built from limestone.It is decorated with carved garlands, water fonts and roundels, and an American eagle with outstretched wings tops the entire structure. Two stairways lead to a terrace twelve feet above the ground.hurlbut gate 2

The gate originally featured a statue of Chauncey Hurlbut inside the center dome, and an ornamental iron gate for vehicle entry, but both are now gone. The gate was substantially restored in 2007, with damaged limestone repaired or replaced, a stairway reconfiguration, repair of the eagle sculpture, and repair and replacement of light fixtures.


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Edmore’s General Bag Corp Building

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Historic Places, small towns, Uncategorized .

Sometimes fate has a way of showing me what to photograph. On a recent trip heading down 46 I had to use the facilities somewhere since my 44 year old bladder does not work as well as it used to. knowing the Fred Meijer Heartland Trail was nearby I stopped at a parking lot that had a restroom I could use. After using the well appointed deluxe outhouse and my mind could think of other things beside reliving my bladder, it was then I noticed a huge building that had the words ” GENERAL BAG CORP.” painted on the sides. I guess one thing that catches my attention is a building with giant lettering painted on the sides. It means it is usually old and historic, but it also is helpful since it tells me something about the buildings.  And the bag building was no exception, after googling Edmore General Bag Building I found and Article about it HERE and how the DDA in Edmore wants to re-purpose it into shops for the community. I hope they are successful, I like seeing old buildings being reused not only because it is a wonderful way to connect with the history of town but it just seems wasteful to knock down a building and build new ones.

PS. when I am traveling the back roads it’s nice to find a bathroom when I need one. to bad the world famous two story outhouse was not functional and accessible it would have been nice to use some historic facilities.

edmore general bag corp

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The Giant Heads of Onaway

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in small towns, Uncategorized .

statute of liberty onaway michigan

I like visiting Onaway and looking at the giant heads made by the Moran Iron Works. You never know who you might see, I know they have made a few different ones over the years and the first one I saw was George Washington a few years ago. when I was there recently they had Lady liberty and Gerald R. Ford on display. I must say they are impressive at about 10 feet tall and made of metal. I can imagine how difficult that is to form and shape those large pieces of metal into such intricate shapes.

you can see more information obut the artwork by Moran HERE

gerald r ford onaway michigan

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