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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Where M-24 crosses the Evergreen Creek between Mayville and Lapeer is a small roadside park. In the middle of the park is a stone and wooden structure with a natural spring where water flows out. It is a nice place to stop for a break on a road trip around the farmlands of the lower Thumb.
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The Linton Memorial Chapel is a little log chapel that stands in the Pioneer Log Village. The chapel was originally home to Robert Linton. It is now a chapel in and part of the historic park in Bad Axe.
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I saw this beautiful gothic house with white siding and a green roof in Harbor Beach in Michigan’s Thumb. In front of the house was a sign that read MURPHY MUSEM. I stopped and took a pic and then read the bronze plaque proudly displayed out front.
Frank Murphy was born in 1890 in Harbor Beach and graduated from U of M with a law degree. He was elected as Mayor of Detroit and Governor of Michigan. He served as the U.S. Attorney General and was nominated to the Supreme Court by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
He was a strong defender of civil rights and as a supreme court justice, he is most noted for speaking out against the Japanese internment camps during World War II declaring it “legalized racism”
This house which stands as a museum and memorial to him was once his home and law office in Harbor Beach. After his death in 1949, he was buried at Our Lady of Lake Huron Catholic Cemetery in Harbor Beach never forgetting his roots in the Thumb.
It’s amazing the things I learn just by stopping to take a pic and reading a sign. I wish I was out traveling right now, but I am staying home and sharing pics from my archive which is good because I forgot all about this pic that I took about a year and a half ago.
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Traveling down M-25 from Bay City into the Thumb you pass through the town of Unionville. The sign welcoming travelers proudly says “Gateway To The Thumb” The town was founded in 1854 when Horace C. Marvin built the first home in the area. He also built and operated a general store and was the town’s first postmaster. He named the town Unionville after his native town of Union Ohio.
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Along the Lake Huron shoreline in the Thumb is the town of White Rock. It was named after, you probably guessed it, a white rock. They rock is about a half-mile offshore. Over the years it has broken up in the ice and is not as prominent as it once was but it is still visible. The rock was used as a boundary marker to define the territory ceded by Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Native Americans with the Treaty of Detroit in 1807. A roadside park was built on M-25 and an overlook allows visitors to see the rock. The lake levels also have an impact on how much of the rock is visible. Next time you are taking a drive down M-25 and you see the roadside park be sure to stop and look at the rock that helped define Michigan.
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Ornate victorian era homes painted in spectacular fashion are known as “Painted Ladies.” A spectacular example of such a house can be seen on Military Street in Port Huron. This stately residence was built in 1888 for lumber dealer John Jenkinson. It is one of only three “Hyde Park Villa” homes built in the U.S. designed by Chicago architect George O. Garnsey. The house is still a private residence today.
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When I say “the pigeon house”, I don’t mean a house full of pigeons. I saw this old farmhouse near the town of Pigeon in the Thumb. It probably has pigeons living in it but I don’t know. It looks to be in really bad shape. I am not sure if the guys from Bargain Block could even restore it. I had to mention the HGTV show because I am addicted to it right now. Two guys by abandoned Detroit houses and fix them up and flip them. I don’t normally watch those types of shows but it is Detroit and amazing what they do with some of the old houses they buy for a thousand bucks. Sorry, I lost my train of thought. Anyways, I stopped and got a pic from the road and moved on. If only walls could talk, they could tell a story of the life this house once had.
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I saw this old house somewhere near Port Austin. I don’t know its story and wonder what it would say if walls could talk. It is sad to see these old houses but they are a reminder of the people that came before us and the hard work they endured. I get frustrated when my cell service goes out I can not imagine how hard it was growing up a century ago.
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The Michigan Historical Marker in front of this grand old home in Columbiaville reads:
This structure, completed in 1896, was the home of William Peter (1824-1899). Peter, a prominent Columbiaville businessman, was a rags-to-riches character. Around 1847 he came to the area from Germany via New York state, a penniless immigrant. Immediately he began working in a local sawmill. He invested his earnings in large tracts of land and platted the village of Columbiaville in 1871. From 1879 to 1899, Peter developed the community. He built a gristmill, a woolen mill, houses for his workmen, a school, a church and several commercial buildings including the railroad depot (see my my post about it HERE). Most of Columbiaville was owned and dominated by him. His wife, Roxanna, planned this Italianate residence, which still displays its original hardwood floors and decorative woodwork in oak, mahogany, walnut, cherry and maple.
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