This Italianate home in Flint was built in 1872 by Civil War Colonel Thomas Baylis Whitmarsh Stockton and overlooks a natural spring that the Stockton’s nicknamed, ‘Spring Grove’. While he lived in this house, Stockton worked as a commission merchant dealing in lime, plaster, coal, and stucco. In 1921 the Sisters of St. Joseph acquired the
This is the old train depot in Saginaw. It’s known as the Potter Street Depot because. you guessed it, It’s on Potter Street. It is the second largest depot in Michigan, second to only the Michigan Central Station. The enormous brick depot in Saginaw is not abandoned, although the railroad no longer uses the building, a preservation
I wandered around the historic ghost town of Fayette in da Upper Peninsula. It was fascinating to go through and explore the buildings since the state park that the town sits in has the doors open for tourists to explore. I was roaming around inside the old two-story hotel, reading some of the info they
The Sessions Schoolhouse is the oldest cobblestone schoolhouse still standing in Michigan and possibly the oldest one-room schoolhouse in the state. The School was built in 1847 with local fieldstone by Alanzo Session, a New York school teacher who moved to the Ionia area. He built the school on his property to educate the local
The leaves may be gone but my Autumn photos are not. I took this pic of an old shack near the Maple River State Game Area. I wish I knew a little history or anything about it to share, but your guess is as good as mine as to its story. I could not pass up
The old stone train depot in Harrisville sits a few blocks from downtown. It seems so lonely isolated from the heart of town. The historic depot was built in 1901 and welcomed passengers traveling from Alpena to Bay city until 1951. It’s a beautiful little depot and the Alcona county historical society must be maintaining it. It looks
David Henry Day was chosen by the President of the Northern Transit Company, a steamship company that shipped cargo on the Great Lakes, to oversee the operations in Glen Haven. In the 1880s D.H. Day built this farm which now stands in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The farm, comprised of 400 acres, and was
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” J.R.R. Tolkien I
The Saturday after Thanksgiving November 24th I will be at Charlin’s Book Nook at the River Place Shops in Frankenmuth from 10:30 to 2:00 pm. I will have copies of my books for sale along with wall calendars. If you have already purchased a book and you want it signed stop by and I will be happy to
In the back of Saginaw’s Forest Lawn Cemetary is a massive stone mausoleum where lumber baron and railroad tycoon Wellington R. Burt is entombed. At the time of his death in 1919, he was the 8th wealthiest person in America and the second richest person in Michigan with Henry Ford holding that title. He is
