News & Fun in Michigan
Our best Michigan history posts are found below.
In July 1910, Detroit built a towering “Welcome” arch over Woodward Avenue for the Elks national convention. For one week, Grand Circus Park turned into a ceremonial gateway for parades, streetcars, and early motorists, offering a vivid snapshot of a rapidly modernizing Motor City.
In the reel image from about 1925, Curwood’s Castle rises behind bare trees along the Shiawassee River. The small stone-and-stucco building looks like something lifted from a European story, yet it stands in Owosso, a mid-Michigan city about 40 miles northeast …
North of Grayling, Michigan, the Underground Forest drew 1950s families into a 240-foot tunnel lined with taxidermy wildlife scenes. Built into a sandy hill along Old US-27, this odd roadside stop thrived on vacation traffic until I-75 opened and the cars — and the cave — slowly disappeared.
The History of Wolverine Michigan tells how a rough Sturgeon River logging camp grew into a busy rail village, collapsed when the pines were gone, and slowly rebuilt around a state fish hatchery, US-27 highway traffic and modest tourist camps in northern Michigan.
In the 1910 postcard, the Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane looms over a bare yard in Pontiac. Tall brick towers, steep roofs, and long wings stretch across the frame. It looks more like a grand hotel than a hospital. Yet …
We’re standing at the crowded dock in Port Hope, Michigan, sometime around 1905 to 1913. A Great Lakes steamer, its name on the bow blurred but appearing to read “Flora” or “Lora,” presses so close to the pier it almost scrapes …
These scenes from around Edmore Michigan, in Montcalm County, show what came after Michigan’s great lumber boom. Once this ground held a deep white pine forest; by the early 1900s, it was a sea of stumps. Crews of farmers and hired …
Drive along Dixie Highway today and Fair Haven, Michigan is easy to miss. A few marinas, a bar or two, and long stretches of reeds along Anchor Bay do not look like much. Yet the history of Fair Haven Michigan shows …
