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Huron County Nature Center summer intern applications are open for a paid seasonal job near Port Austin, offering hands-on public-facing work for students. A small but appealing summer job opening in Michigan’s Thumb may draw outsized interest from college students and …
Michigan’s history is often told through well-known events—Detroit’s auto industry, the Mackinac Bridge, or lumber booms. But across the state, smaller and often forgotten stories still sit in plain sight. While many people think of its big factories and industrial growth, …
Genealogy research in Michigan is entering a new phase, driven by faster access to vital records, advances in DNA technology, and expanded historical archives. Recent developments across the state point to a shift: Michigan genealogy research and family history are no …
the Harbor Beach News from July 1902. It highlights a fare war between the railroads and the steamships on excursions between Buffalo, New York, and Detroit, Michigan. It signals a sign that it’s the beginning of the end of steamship dominance on the Great Lakes in favor of railroads.
Did you know that in the 1920s, the Red Cross provided essential health care services to Michigan’s rural Thumb region? Even in those days, the Red Cross was dedicated to reaching communities in need with creativity and determination.
Railroads built Reed City. Lumber sustained it. Then a massive oil well briefly turned the town into national news. This story traces the surprising history of Reed City Michigan.
Learn how a remote Michigan town went from logging outpost to global arts mecca. A 1917 state park purchase between two lakes gave rise to the National Music Camp and Interlochen Arts Academy.
Brown City began as a railroad station in 1879 and quickly grew into a farm and shipping hub for Michigan’s Thumb region. Railroads, grain elevators, and later motorhome manufacturing shaped the town’s unusual history.
Fenton was more than a lake stop. Rail lines, cement plants, and one 1914 factory fire shaped the town’s early years. Here are the scenes that explain what changed—and what stayed.
St. Johns, Michigan, has long been the place in Clinton County where the official business gets done. It is the county seat, and for much of the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was also a hub of commerce—a place where …
