I saw this old grain elevator in the southeastern Michigan town of New Haven. I don’t have a story to go with it. I just like the pic. Thank you all for taking the time to read and share my posts. I really appreciate all the love and support I get from you. I hope you have a great week.
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This grand old brick Italian Revival house stands proudly in the South Street Historic District in Kalamazoo. William A. Wood built this home for his family in 1877. Unfortunately, he died shortly after moving into the new house but his widow Sarah lived in the home until her death in the early 1900s. in 1905, William E. Upjohn Purchased the home on South Street. Upjohn was a physician who patented a new type of pill that was easier to crush into a powder and created the Upjohn Corporation. I love the tower with the round porthole style window. It must be a beautiful view out the windows of the ornate brick tower. If you are ever in Kalamazoo take a trip down South Street, there are some beautiful old homes in the neighborhood.
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At the end of WWII and the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the world was forever changed ushering in the Cold War. You probably know that the Manhatten project’s mission was to create the first nuclear weapons. But you probably did not know that it started with a clandestine meeting on the beach at Otsego Lake State Park. Dr. Arthur H. Compton a Nobel Prize-winning physicist was placed in charge of the project. He met with theoretical physicist Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer on the beach to discuss if the project was even possible. Dr. Compton had a summer home on Otsego Lake and chose the state park for the meeting because he knew it was a secluded spot and would be away from enemy spies. After the men agreed that it could be done they continued moving forward with the government’s plans to create the first atomic bomb, and the world was never the same since then.
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Growing up in the ’70s my family would pile into the big blue Oldsmobile Delta 88 and take a road trip. A few times we stopped at Deer Acres near Pinconning. It may not have been Disneyland but for a little kid, it sure felt like it. My favorite was the old-timey model T cars on the rails that I could drive. Feeding the deer was also a thrill but a little scary when they all come running at you when they see a handful of feed.
It has been closed for a while and traveling around the state I see a lot of old tourist places that have closed and sit forgotten. Maybe it’s because travel has gotten easier, or maybe it takes a lot more to impress today’s kids with their video games and modern technology, but I miss some of the old family-friendly tourist traps.
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I came across this old building which I thought was a farmhouse in the Keweenaw Peninsula not far from Chassell. I just assumed it was an old farmhouse but then I came across something that referred to an old school called Paradise School. When I think of Paradise I think of the small town near the T-Falls. I then realized this old building was on Paradise Road so I figured that made sense.
I always thought the shape of it seemed a little odd for a schoolhouse, since most one-room schools are simple buildings with a simple roofline. It’s hidden behind the trees but it is a “T” shaped building and roofline. I came across this photo this old photo on the internet that said it was the Paradise School near Chassell so I guess that it is the old Paradise School.
P.S. I wonder what became of the children in the photo. I look at old photos and I always wonder about the people in them.
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Hidden deep within the Manistee National Forest is a small un-named waterfall. It is not a large waterfall, only about two feet tall, but it is a peaceful and serene little waterfall. It is on a little creek that flows into the Manistee River a couple of miles south of the Hodenpyl Dam. The creek and waterfall do not have a name and even the sign next to them just reads “waterfall”. I have decided to call it the Manistee Falls for the forest it is in, and the Manistee river is only a few yards away.
I am guessing the creek dries up by mid-summer and the waterfalls are not flowing, so if you want to see it, spring would be the best time to do it. I don’t normally post exact locations and directions to places in my posts. I prefer to leave that for my books, but I figure since this place has limited information on the internet, I would share that info here.
Here are the coordinates for the parking area 44°20’51.4″N 85°49’42.9″W ( which someone has marked Sara’s Falls Parking)
The best way to reach the parking area is to take W 26 Rd. from M-37. Head west into the woods and it will curve to the right, but you will want to take W 26 Rd. that continues heading west. It will end at No. 1 Rd. Turn right (north) travel about a half-mile, until you see a two-track heading west. turn left and then about a half-mile at the end of the two-track is a gate and parking ara. Take the trail behind the gate about a quarter-mile to the falls. It is not too bad of a hike but it does go downhill for the last 100 yards.
if you enjoy exploring the Upper Peninsula for waterfalls, I am sure you will enjoy visiting these little waterfalls. They may not be large and impressive, but it is a fun journey and somewhere you can check off your list of places you have visited.
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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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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 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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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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