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
According to early Genesee County histories, the first building in Gaines was a wood-frame railroad depot. It was replaced by this brick depot in 1881. The station closed when rail service ended in the 1950s. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Genesee Avenue / Walker Street Historic District in
I saw this big old lonely forgotten house south of Watrousville in the Thumb, and during these cold Michigan winter nights I imagine there was a large family living there that kept warm by the heat of the fireplace. I know people who heat their house with wood, and they do a lot of cutting
This old mill stands the River Raisin in Dundee. It was built in Alfred Wilkerson in 1848 with a dam made out of logs. It was built as a grist mill to grind grain. In 1910, the mill was sold to the Dundee Hydraulic Power Company, which built a concrete dam and converted it into
I saw this old shack or house or whatever it was not far from the waterfalls I stopped to visit. Looking on the map I show both the town of Dixon and Forest Lake on the map and it is not far from Au Train Falls. I am not sure if this is the last
