June 2020 - Page 3 of 3 - Lost In Michigan

The Stone Church in the Thumb

Posted on June 7, 2020 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Churches, Thumb .

If you have followed my posts for a while you know I am a sucker for old stone buildings. They have a natural feel to them being constructed from local stones and they seem like they would stand for a long time as stones don’t really decay like wood or other modern materials.

I saw this old stone church in Croswell that even had a historical marker standing in front of it. The marker reads:

This picturesque cobblestone building constructed in 1898 serves as the Croswell chapel of the Trinity Episcopal Church. Its interior features wooden arches and a rood screen between the nave and the chancel. This structure formerly called Christ Church replaced the county’s first Episcopal church building erected nearby in 1870. Among the prominent citizens attending and supporting the present church were the families of lumber barons Wildman Mills, Truman Moss, and Joseph Gaige.

The old historic church is now used as the Croswell Community Center.

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Camp Lunden’s Little Michigan

These small ponds dug in the shape of the Great Lakes are located on County Road 612 between Lewiston and M-33. They are what remains of a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp.

A few months after Franklin Roosevelt created the CCC the camp was created outside of Lewiston and given the name Camp Lunden. It was one of 103 camps in Michigan. Men training to be draftsmen and civil engineers arrived. In their spare time, they dug the ponds created the shape of Michigan at the entrance. The camp closed in 1936 and only the ponds remain along with a historical marker to mark the spot where the CCC camp once stood.

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The Famous Upper Peninsula Courthouse

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in courthouses, upper peninsula .

The courthouse in Marquette was compleated in 1904. It is a beautiful Neo-Classical Revival building built with local sandstone. The courthouse has held a few notable cases. in 1913, President Theodore Roosevelt won a libel suit against Ishpeming newspaper publisher George Newett and was awarded six cents, “the price of a good newspaper.”

In 1952 Lt. Coleman A. Peterson was tried for killing a man in Big Bay. His trial gained notoriety when he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. The murder and trial inspired the book and movie Anatomy of a Murder. The movie starred Jimmy Stewart and portions were filmed in the courthouse.

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Old Facefull

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Nature .

The crystal clear spring water of Old Facefull flows all year long. The artesian spring is in Pierport about a hundred yards from the Lake Michigan shoreline. It is on the corner of 13 Mile and Lakeview Road in a public parking lot with access to the lake. It is nothing fancy, it is basically a pipe sticking out of the ground with water coming out and into a nearby drain. I did not have a jug or water bottle with me but I did take a drink of the water like a kid taking a dring from a garden hose. It was really good water and it tasted like, you guessed it, water. I was there in late winter just before the pandemic lockdown so my pic is not the greatest. If you are ever near Manistee, the spring is not too far off M-22 for you to stop and check it out.

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The Old Engine House

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Uncategorized .

Walking around downtown Ann Arbor, from a distance, I saw the tower on this building which I thought was an old church, but then as I got closer I noticed the doors on the front and then realized it was an old fire station. It is now the the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum but above the doors carved into the stonework, it reads “Engine House 1882”. it’s easy to imagine the horses coming out of those doors pulling a steam pumper galloping down the Ann Arbor streets off to fight a fire. The bell tower was used to summon volunteer fireman to the fire station to fight a fire. The fire department moved out of the old firehouse in the 1970s.

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