Alpena
At the Jesse Besser
Museum, see artifacts of the Pewabic, one of 160
shipwrecks that lie in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
PDF, 6 pages
Battle
Creek
Learn how W. K.
Kellogg, C. W. Post and others changed the nation's eating habits
while making Battle Creek one of the world's most recognized
cities. PDF, 8 pages
Calumet
Walk the streets that
Annie Clemenc strode during the tragic 1913-1914 copper strike.
PDF, 4 pages
Calumet
at 125, PDF, 12 pages
Detroit
Stand next to the Brown
Bomber's enormous fist, which commemorates one of America's
greatest sports heroes. PDF, 6 pages
Fayette
Discover a late-nineteenth-century industrial complex whose snug
harbor, white cliffs and lush forests make it one of the state's
most stunning sites.
Grand Rapids
Explore the Gerald R.
Ford Museum, which chronicles the life of Michigan's only U.S.
president. PDF, 10 pages
Iron
Mountain
Appreciate how Tom
Izzo's hard-knocks story to basketball fame began in this city.
PDF, 8 pages
Ishpeming
Learn about author John
Voelker and how his best seller, Anatomy of a Murder,
became a blockbuster movie starring Jimmy Stewart. PDF, 10 pages
To mark the end of an era for
Upper Peninsula sports, Michigan History presents this unique photo
album of past and present ski jumping competitions at
Ishpeming's Suicide Hill.
Isle
Royale
Appreciate the natural beauty of a national park whose cultural
history can be traced back 4,000 years.
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Laurium
Visit the hometown of "The Gipper," the man most
responsible for building Notre Dame's football tradition. PDF, 8
pages
Mackinac
Island
Explore an island that one famed visitor described as "the
wildest and tenderest piece of beauty" she had ever seen on
Earth.
Marquette
See the Marquette County Courthouse where Theodore Roosevelt
sued an Ishpeming editor for libel. PDF, 7 pages
The
Legacy of Peter White, PDF, 8 pages
Monroe
Walk in the footsteps of soldiers who struggled at the River
Raisin in the biggest battle ever fought on Michigan soil. PDF,
9 pages
Negaunee
Recall Michigan's worst mining disaster while visiting the
Michigan Iron Industry Museum, where the nation's iron industry
stories are told in pictures and artifacts.
Niles
Michigan History has followed along with the developments
at Fort St. Joseph. Read about the progress from discovery to
recovery of one of Michigan's earliest settlements.
Diggin' Fort St. Joseph,
PDF, 6 pages.
Fort St. Joseph is Found!, PDF, 10 pages.
Fort St. Joseph
artifacts and Sitting
Bull story
Pequaming
Learn how this Upper Peninsula village changed from a lumbering
to auto-manufacturing community and then eventually a ghost
town.
West Coast
Learn about the roots of the state's wine industry while
sampling its exquisite products. PDF, 10 pages
Whitefish
Pointe
Remember Michigan's most famous shipwreck, the Edmund
Fitzgerald, when visiting the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.
PDF, 10 pages |
explores the human element of the state's rich past and gives you the
history behind some of your favorite travel destinations. But unlike a
vacation, you can enjoy Michigan History all year long.