Pictorial History of Lake County, Michigan
Author : Cathy Carper
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Lake County (Mich.)
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Author : Cathy Carper
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Lake County (Mich.)
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Author : George S. May
Publisher : Michigan Natural Resources Magazine.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 1967
Category : History
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Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
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Author : Jennifer Boresz Engelking
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1467144584
Striking natural beauty draws many visitors to Lake County, but the area also has a rich and captivating history. Willoughbeach Amusement Park arose where one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history occurred years before. Secret passageways and tunnels helped slaves escape to freedom. Native son and Tuskegee Airman Earl R. Lane earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. Marge Hurlburt, a service pilot during World War II, set an international women's flight speed record, and Amy Kaukonen, one of the nation's first female mayors, personally raided suspected bootleggers during Prohibition. Author Jennifer Boresz Engelking uncovers the history behind some of Lake County's most well-known people and landmarks and reveals stories lost to time.
Author : Mikel B. Classen
Publisher : Modern History Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 1615997245
Enjoy a Visual Trip to See How People Lived and Worked in the U.P. in Centuries Past! Classen's pictorial history is the next best thing to a time machine, as we get a front-row seat in the worlds of shipping and shipwrecks, iron and copper mining, timber cutting, hunting and fishing and the everyday lives of ordinary folks of Michigan's Upper Peninsula across more than 100 years. Faces, Places and Days Gone By peers into our past through the lenses of those that lived and explored it. See what they saw as time passed and how the U.P. evolved into the wonderous place we know today. From the author's unique collection, witness newly restored images from long lost stereoviews, cabinet cards, postcards and lithograph engravings. Join us on a visual journey to relive some of those moments, and discover a unique heritage through those faces and places. From the Soo to Ironwood, from Copper Harbor to Mackinaw Island-you'll never see the U.P. in quite the same way! "With his book Faces, Places, and Days Gone By, historian Mikel B. Classen has achieved a work of monumental importance. Drawing from his collection of archival photographs, Classen takes readers on a journey in time that gives rare insight into a vanished world." --Sue Harrison, international bestselling author of The Midwife's Touch " "Mikel Classen's Faces, Places, and Days Gone By provides a fascinating and nostalgic look at more than a century of Upper Michigan photography. From images of iron mines and logging to Sunday drives and palatial hotels, you are bound to be in awe of this chance to visit the past." -- Tyler R. Tichelaar, award-winning author of Kawbawgam: The Chief, The Legend, The Man "Mikel Classen's new book, Faces, Places, and Days Gone By, belongs in every library in Michigan. And when I say every library, I'm talking about every public, high school and college storehouse of knowledge." -- Michael Carrier, MA, New York University, author of the award-winning Jack Handler U.P. mystery series Learn more at www.MikelBClassen.com From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9781597256544
A treasure trove of history, profiling many aspects of life in Northwest Indiana. There's the first trolley car to enter Crown Point; the 1954 blast at the Whiting Refinery; the efforts to create the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1966, and the years of effort that lead up to it. There's World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War. And there's also people having fun, creating communities, making history on the local level. Savor this trip down memory lane!
Author : D. Wayne Stiles
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
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Author : Emmett Peter
Publisher : Lake County Historical Society
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780898659054
Author : Lynda Twardowski
Publisher : Turner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Michigan, Lake
ISBN : 9781596525320
The vast lingering remnant of an ice age that came to a close more than 10,000 years ago, Lake Michigan has shaped the history of the settlements along its surrounding shores for centuries. Its storied waters have seen schooners, luxury steamships, and modern freighters, its lakeshores the rise of the railroads that helped to carve a way of life into the surrounding wooded wilderness for the Americans who called the region home. Through high times and lean, the lake's 1,640 miles of coastline have clung to their untamed beauty even as bustling harbor hamlets and booming cities like Chicago and Milwaukee rose in their midst. Historic Photos of Lake Michigan chronicles portions of two centuries on and around Lake Michigan--the only great lake entirely within United States borders, the third-largest of the five Great Lakes, and the fifth-largest freshwater lake in the world--showcasing the ever-changing life and landscape along its quartz crystal coast.
Author : Lake County Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2009-11-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439621012
Native Americans roamed the beautiful lands of northern Michigan for many years, leaving a legacy of mature forests, clear waters, and plentiful game. By 1871, waves of immigrants were arriving from Europe, as well as Union soldiers after the Civil War. These pioneers brought with them the tools, know-how, and determination to transform the wild land into an economy based on the timber, railroads, and farming. Schools, churches, businesses, and tourism blossomed. The county's 156 lakes and 46 trout streams offered pristine settings for swimming, boating, hunting, and fishing. Resorts, sporting clubs, and cottage colonies sprang up to meet the needs of seasonal visitors. Early fishing guide and hotelier Andrew J. Bradford, financiers Curtis W. MacPhail and Robert J. Smith, philanthropist Martin Johnson, and others nurtured the growth of the communities. The Civilian Conservation Corps replanted the forests and built roads, the African American resort of Idlewild showcased black entertainers, and Raymond W. Overholzer built Shrine of the Pines, all promoting the county's development.