News & Fun in Michigan
Our best Michigan history posts are found below.
Saugatuck, Michigan reinvented itself in the early 1900s, trading sawmills for steamships, dance halls, and beach tourism. This is how a small harbor town became a Midwest summer destination.
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 …
