I saw this old shack with a rusty tank next to it in an old farm field north of Mancelona. I grew up in the city and not sure what it was used for maybe a pump house or fuel for the tractor? I don’t know but it looked peaceful in the snow.
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I saw this old piece of farm equipment at the Hartley Nature Center Farm. I am not sure what it is but someone told be it was a silo shooter or something like that. It was use to fill silos with grain.
I want to say thank you to all of you for the kind and supportive New Year’s Comments. I don’t normally respond to comments because I get a lot and it is time consuming for me but I do enjoy reading them. I have been in Florida for the past few weeks visiting relitives. Yes I stopped at a few places along the way and took some pics. I would have done more but my family gets bored sitting in the car waiting for me. I hope yo someday start another website with the places I find while lost outside of Michigan. Maybe this summer I will have it actived and enought content to start posting.
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A group of red barns stand in the Leelanau Peninsula north of Northport near the tip of the peninsula. I am not sure if is or was part of a cherry orchard but the bright red stands out the white snow of winter.
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This old barn sits among the trees at the Groen Nature Preserve near Johannesburg. I am thinking it is a rather old barn with its stone foundation. If you want a nice place to take a hike in the woods be sure to check out the preserve. It has an old ghost town, resort and lots of old vehicles to explore.
Reminder I will be at Milford Independent Cinemas on Tuesday, Oct 26th at 7:00 for my presentation on spooky places around Michigan. If you are in the area I hope you will see my presentation.
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I saw this old windmill near Pompeii. It’s a small town in the central Lower Peninsula. I assume at one time a farm stood near the windmill when it was not so old. Most of the old windmills I see are broken. It was nice to see this one with all of its vanes still intact.
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I saw this old barn somewhere near Mayville in the Thumb. I am not sure exactly where it is located because I was just roaming the backroads to see what I could find. I figure this barn is rather old since it has a stone foundation. It looked nice standing in the farmland.
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This massive white barn with a green roof sits in the town of Eaton Rapids. It is one of the largest barns in Michigan. It is hard to miss the MILLER DAIRY FARM No 1 painted on the side of it. A historical mark next to it gives a little history of this historic farm and reads:
In 1896 dairy farmers Dennis and Mary Miller produced ice cream for the first time on this site, using a hand-crank freezer. The 111-acre farm grew into a business with 14 farms, 1,300 acres, 500 Holstein cows and modern equipment. In 1936 Miller built his own power plant in Smithville, which supplied 40 neighboring farms and houses as well as the factory. During the 1960s 22 Miller stores and 200 independent dealers in Michigan and Indiana carried the brand. Miller’s offered novelty flavors, like dill pickle. Its menu reflected the times. A 1969 Man-on-the-Moon menu featured a Sea of Tranqility Float and an Apollo 11 Sundae. The Eaton Rapids Area Historical Society acquired the property in 1992.
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I saw this old barn somewhere near Gaylord among the rolling hills of grass. I don’t have a story to go with this pic I just thougt it was a pretty looking old barn so I stopped to take a pic.
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This old barn with a faded Mail Pouch mural sits outside of Hillsdale. Advertising for tobacco products is taboo these days but these old barn murals are nostalgic. You can see a pic of a different mail pouch barn HERE
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In the Timbers Recreation Area on North Long Lake Road about 10 miles west of Traverse City sits this beautiful old brown barn. The area’s approximately 240 acres are open to hikers, but it once belonged to a family that owned one of America’s iconic brands.
The Timbers was a resort on Long Lake when Lola Armour vacationed there in 1919 and fell in love with the property. She and her husband J. Ogden Armour, owner of the Armour Meat Packing Company, purchased it that summer. They removed many of the original buildings and constructed a mansion, a lodge, a dormitory, cottages for the superintendent, chauffeur and secretary, two barns, and a boathouse on the lake.
J. Ogden Armour died in 1927, but Lola kept the property until 1945 when she sold the property because she was no longer able to travel to it. Eventually, the property was sold in sections with the home being sold off and The Girl Scouts purchasing 238 acres in 1962, which became the Timbers Girl Scout Camp.
Recently the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy and Long Lake Township purchased the property for public use. Hiking trails throughout the property meander through the forests and fields, and along the old barn and some building from the former estate. The mansion and adjacent property are still privately owned and closed to the public.
By the way, If you want to visit this historic barn Moomers Ice Cream is just down the road.
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