St. Patrick’s Church in Clifford in the Thumb began in 1879 with visits from Father Clement Krebs, pastor at St. Agatha Church in Gagetown. It later became a mission of St. Elizabeth in Reese, Sacred Heart in Brown City, and most recently SS. Peter and Paul in North Branch. In 1884 the Diocese of Detroit
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
https://amzn.to/3OVo6LL 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
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
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
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
The tallest lighthouse on the Great Lakes is the White Shoal Lighthouse on the western end of the Straits of Mackinac. The tower was completed in 1910 and is 121 feet tall. During a winter storm in 1929, a fifty-four-year-old ice fisherman ended up at White Shoal Lighthouse seeking refuge. Lewis Sweet and a couple
The small town of Hersey is near Reed City where the Hersey and Muskegon Rivers meet. In town is this block building with Hersey Roller Mills painted across the front. It is a convenience store now but I had to stop and get a pic of it because I like the hand painted sign on
I have driven past this airport at the tip of the Leelanau Peninsula many times on my way to the Grand Traverse Lighthouse. I always called it the Bumblebee Airport because of the black and yellow roof. It is actually the Woolsey Memorial Airport and the stone building was an old creamery when the field
Holmdene Hall at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids was originally built as a family home for Edward Lowe and his family in 1903. He was such a prominent member of Grand Rapids society that President Theodore Roosevelt stayed there when he visited Grand Rapids for a speech in 1911. In 1945, the Dominican Sisters of Grand