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The Gagetown agricultural museum will mark three decades of Fall Family Days with historic farm demonstrations, a giant flea market, homemade food and a new corn maze Sept. 12-13. GAGETOWN, Mich. — One of the Michigan Thumb’s largest celebrations of rural …
Today the Port Hope Depot has been exquisitely restored. You can see exhibits in the passenger waiting room, the station masters office, luggage and freight room. Each room has been painted to match the original color.
Weather radar revealed a major southbound movement early Wednesday, while Michigan Fall bird migration over Huron County’s skies remained comparatively quiet. Bad Axe, Mi. – September 9, 2026 – More than 2 million migrating birds were estimated to be flying over …
From early hunting laws and 50-cent licenses to deer patches and opening-day reunions, the history of deer hunting in Michigan follows generations into the woods. Michigan’s deer-hunting history lives in more than just harvest reports. It survives in camp photographs, old …
Michigan’s Sanilac Petroglyphs contain more than 100 carvings along the Cass River. New research and tribal interpretation are changing how this ancient site is understood and protected.
Alexander Henry was a fur trader, merchant, militia commander, and novelist who lived during the American Revolutionary War. His exploits were legendary during the war between France and England over control of the Great Lakes region.
Algonac grew where the St. Clair River divides into delta channels. Between 1890 and 1940, steamers, trolleys, racers and Chris-Craft transformed the town. Its story also includes resort hotels, fishing, motor tourism, close ties with nearby Bkejwanong Territory and the national rise of recreational boating.
The Huron County community will mix glam-metal nostalgia with a longtime Thumb tradition as Elkton Autumn Fest returns Sept. 4-6. ELKTON, Mich. — Elkton will close out summer with a Labor Day weekend combination that could only make sense in Michigan’s …
The dream is easy to picture. A modest cottage a short walk from Lake Huron, coffee on the porch while a freighter slides across the horizon, and a stretch of shoreline that feels, at least for a season, like it belongs …
Quincy Mine Michigan earned the nickname Old Reliable through decades of copper production and steady dividends. Its story also includes immigrant labor, record-setting depth, the 1913 strike, the massive Nordberg steam hoist and the economic pressures that halted major underground mining in 1931.
