This historic building with the belfry on its roof sits along Woodland Lake in the Manistee National Forest. The old building was was part of Woodland park and a Michigan historical marker next to it tells the story of this old resort community. During the 1920s, investors Wilber Lemon, A.E. Wright, Marion and Ella Auther,
St. Patrick’s Church in Clifford 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 acquired property here
This depot and substation in downtown Coopersville served the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon Railway, an electric interurban railroad that operated from 1902 to 1928. The train was powered by electricity and a third rail provided power in the country. Overhead wires were used in cities and the tower next to the depot housed
This is the “new” Presque Isle Lighthouse, even though it was built in 1870, because the old Lightouse on the other side of Presque Isle was built and 1840. Built by Orlando M. Poe, it is one of three Great Lakes towers built from the same plans. The conical brick tower rises 113 feet from a limestone
I saw this little brick schoolhouse north of Manchester. The stone over the front door reads SHARON DISTRICT #1 1890. It looks as if someone is taking good care of this old school. It has new windows and a new roof. I could not pass up stopping to take a pic. Thank you for Subscribing
March 13th is a popular day with Detroiters because 313 is the area code for Detroit. According to the show How The States Got Their Shapes the larger cities in the United States got low number area codes. Detroit is 313, New York City is 212, and Washington DC is 202 and so on. It
I did a post about the forgotten town of Big Rock between Gaylord and Alpena. Some people commented that they thought I was posting about the Big Rock Point nuclear plant near Charlevoix. I did not think about it until one day I stopped at a scenic roadside park on US-31 that overlooks Lake Michigan.
This complex of buildings on the shore of Portage Lake north of Hancock in the Keweenaw Peninsula is the Quincy Smelter. You can also see the ruins of the old smelter across the lake from Houghton. Built by the Quincy Mining Company, the smelter used to heat and chemical processes to turn copper ore into
The Ann Arbor Rail Depot, located in the town of Shepherd near Mt Pleasant, was originally built in the early 1890’s and served the Shepherd area until the early 1960’s when the cost of rail shipping just could not compete with the trucking industry and passenger travel by rail had been long gone and given
I saw this old building near the small town of Boon. I am not sure but it looks like an old schoolhouse. The little town of Boon is kind of in the middle of nowhere west of Cadillac. Whenever I drive down M-115 I always see the sign for it and wonder how the town
