I saw this old schoolhouse near Hastings. I found out on the internet it was the old Coats Grove School. It was a fractional school built in 1874 and closed in 1967. A fractional school is a school that serves more than one district. I am assuming the two doors is because one is for boys and one is for girls but I am not 100 percent positive of that.
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I am excited to announce that the Lost In Michigan Volume 7 is now available on Amazon HERE
Like my other books it has stories from all around the Great Lakes State. From the southern border to the top of the Upper Peninsula and places in between. I am sure you will enjoy reading it if you liked my other books.
Thank you all so much for purchasing my books and supporting what I do. I don’t get any outside funding, and my book sales help me with expenses to continue writing posts. Many people have told me they enjoy traveling to the places in my books and experiencing them in person. Volume 7 is a great way to plan for your summer travels and I hope you have fun exploring Michigan as much as I do.
P.S. I am working on distributing books to my local retailers. It will take me a few weeks to get books and ship them out to the stores that sell my books.
This beautiful brick Victorian house stands along M-25 just south of Lexington. It was built in the 1870s and is now a B & B. It is a beautiful old house. Lexington sits along Lake Huron about ten miles north of Port Huron. I think it is one of the most underrated tourist towns in Michigan. If you are looking for someplace to visit to do a little downtown shopping and get a bite to eat you need to check out Lexington.
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When I was in the town of Michigamme in the Upper Peninsula I came across this big old brick building. It was not hard to figure out what it was built for with the words MICHIGAMME PUBLIC SCHOOL across the top of it. The school opened in 1915, and graduated 15 students in its first year. From what I found on the internet, it closed in 1965, when declining enrollments forced the school to close. The towns students now attend high school in Republic.
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I have driven over the Mackinac Bridge many times and I got to wondering about how it got its colors.
When the bridge was being constructed and ad agency was working with Chrysler who was supplying engines and equipment used to build the bridge. The agency featured the bridge in an advertisement. According to the St. Ignace News. At the time, colors hadn’t been selected for the bridge, so the company chose ivory for the towers and foliage green for the trusses under the roadway.
The Bridge Authority members and engineers saw the advertisement and liked it, so they used the color scheme on the completed bridge. And it has been the same color ever since.
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