News History & Fun in Michigan
We find the best YouTub videos about Michigan’s Thumb and catalog them here for education and reference.
These vintage photos track Utica’s shift from wagons and rail to bank buildings, a cooperative creamery, and car-era Main Street—plus the canal project that shaped the town even after it failed.
Before marinas and beach towns, Michigan’s Great Lakes ports were working fishing hubs. From Bay Port to Leland, these towns fed the Midwest and shaped life along the water from 1890 to 1940.
Lake Michigan Park was Muskegon’s “trolley park” era in one place: a bathing pavilion, concessions, dancing, a roller coaster, and a theater that drew vaudeville. It peaked as transit-fed fun, then faded as cars took over and the lakefront became public space.
The history of Au Gres, Michigan unfolds through rare photos and vivid storytelling. From Native fishing camps to sawmills and steamboats, this lakeside town’s past is rich with change, work, and water.
White Rock once helped define a treaty boundary, then tried to become a Lake Huron resort with hotels and a ballroom. Fires, winters and shifting travel routes changed it—but the story still holds.
A lakeshore village shaped by trains, tourists, and time. Rare photos from 1900 to 1950 reveal how New Buffalo, Michigan became known as the Gateway to the Great Lakes.
The history of Atlanta Michigan is a tale of a small Northwoods town that weathered dramatic booms and busts between 1900 and 1950. Tucked in Montmorency County’s rolling hills and forests, Atlanta transformed from a fading lumber camp into a resilient …
The history of Mt. Clemens Michigan runs through hot mineral water, not oil. This feature tracks Bath City U.S.A.’s rise and collapse, from crowded bath houses and grand hotels to Thomas Edison learning telegraphy at the Grand Trunk depot and the spa town’s slow fade.
