Download or read book Upper Tittabawassee River Boom Towns written by Stan Berriman and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story that has long needed telling. It is the story of not one town, but four towns that made up an area, and as a result of their being, made possible the growth of a neighboring city. This is the story of the towns of Averill, Edenville, Hope, and Sanford, together with a short history of the early Indians of the area and the logging and salt wells that made possible the growth of the City of Midland, Michigan. In this story, one may read of "Red Keg" and "Camp 16", both famed in song and story. Averill, originally known as "Red Keg", was at one time the world's largest banking ground. Edenville or "Sixteen", was a robust logging camp, second only to Dodge City and Tombstone in the matter of roughness. The main difference being that in Edenville disputes were settled with fists, bottles, and calk boots, with the loser usually living to fight another day, whereas in Dodge and Tombstone, the loser was planted in "Boot Hill."
Download or read book Upper Tittabawassee River Boom Towns written by Stanley J. Berriman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upper Tittabawasee River Boom Towns written by Stan Berriman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a story that has long needed telling. It is the story of not one town, but four towns that made up an area, and as a result of their being, made possible the growth of a neighboring city. This is the story of the towns of Averill, Edenville, Hope and Sanford, together with a short history of the early Indians of the area and the logging and salt wells that made possible the growth of the city of Midland, Michigan."--Introduction (p. i).
Download or read book Articles of Agreement of the Tittabawassee River Boom Company written by Tittabawassee River Boom Company and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Midland written by Virginia Florey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a small settlement at the junction of the Tittabawassee and Chippewa Rivers, Midland began as a humble community and grew to become a testament to industrialization. Settlers populated the city and ambitiously founded a tiny lumbering village, which soon developed into a regional hub of the lumbering industry. Nearly a century after it was settled, Midland County experienced an oil boom, and consequently became the state's leader in oil production, bringing prosperity and further industrialization to the area. In their previous book, Midland: The Way We Were, Virginia Florey and Leona Seamster documented the significant people and places that have shaped Midland's rich history. In their second installment, Midland: Her Continuing Story, they have included the history of neighboring towns-Averill, Sanford, Coleman, Hope, and Edenville-that played a significant role in the lumbering era. Through nearly 200 historical photographs and a collection of unprecedented personal stories, Florey and Seamster again explore this fascinating region and focus on its proud heritage as an industrial leader.
Download or read book Enterprising Images written by John Vincent Jezierski and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the most prolific African American photographers in North America.
Download or read book Marketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory written by Robert E. Mitchell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining narrative history with data-rich social and economic analysis, this new institutional economics study examines the failure of frontier farms in the antebellum Northwest Territory, where legislatively-created imperfect markets and poor surveying resulted in massive investment losses for both individual farmers and the national economy. The history of farming and spatial settlement patterns in the Great Lakes region is described, with specific focus on the State of Michigan viewed through a case study of Midland County. Inter and intra-state differences in soil endowments, public and private promoters of site-specific investment opportunities, time trends in settled populations and the experiences of individual investors are covered in detail.
Download or read book Built on Pines written by David McMacken and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Michigan lumberman Ammi Willard Wright. He made a fortune in Saginaw lumbering in the 19th century. His business connections reached into 12 states. He became the patron of the town of Alma, MI, assisting with the founding of Alma College and energizing many other enterprises in the town.
Download or read book Salt of the Earth written by Dorothy Langdon Yates and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local History and Genealogy Book List written by Mideastern Michigan Library Cooperative and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book McTaggart s Red Keg 1867 1868 written by Irene Hargreaves and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frankie and the Barons written by Stuart D. Gross and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saginaw a History of the Land and the City written by Stuart D. Gross and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Michigan Genealogical Historical Collections at the Library of Michigan and the State Archives of Michigan written by Michigan Genealogical Council and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michigan s Timber Battleground written by Forrest B. Meek and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Book's Jacket flap: The Northern half of Lower Michigan remained in splendid isolation until after the Civil War. To be sure, some settlements and commercial activity antedated the 1860's, especially along the shores of Lakes Michigan and Huron, but the interior regions were carpeted with forests, and devoid of organized settlements. The history of this region, therefore, is necessarily concerned with the removal of this tremendous forest and the founding of organized civil governments and towns. The timber harvesters were rowdy crowd for the most part, but they brought day-light to the swamps. They tolerated county and municipal governments as little as possible, seeking to control them for their own benefits. Land hungry immigrants, refugees from Europe, Canada, and the eastern United States, and from the Civil War were scattered throughout the timbered over districts in their settler's cabins. During the last third of the nineteenth century, mid-Michigan became a battleground between the lumbermen and the settlers. Because the lumbermen were more strident and less inhibited than the God-fearing settlers, they seemed, at first, to win the struggle, but the settlers had staying power. They had come to build homes for their families, so the losses were accepted temporarily, but they were not content to let the coarser elements win the final battles. When the timber people finished leveling the forests, they lost interest in the so-called waste lands of the interior and let much of it return to the state for back taxes. Some land was sold, but most of it was abandoned. The lumber barons also abandoned the scores of saloons and bawdy houses, the lumber camps and their seasonal jobs. Left in their wake were the scattered ghost towns, farm communities and villages and towns, greatly weakened by the sudden loss of people and commerce.
Download or read book Saginaw s Changeable Past written by Jeremy W. Kilar and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword: Placement of the term "changeable" next to the word "historical" in this book's title may appear repetitive to the insightful reader. Indeed history is an ongoing process. Communities grow, populations vary, and economies rise and fall. History captures and interprets the change that goes on around us. Yet in Saginaw "change" is the password that opens the door to understanding the community's past. Few cities have undergone such extensive economic fluctuations, physical restructuring and demographic changes as Saginaw. The exploitation of "inexhaustible resources," first by the Indians, fur traders and later lumbermen marked earlier changes. This bounty did not last forever; after 30 years of transition something even better came along. By combining text, documents, remembrances, and quotations with a pictorial narrative one can look back at Saginaw's changeable past. New faces and new technologies will likely bring additional challenges, but by looking at the past Saginaw's citizens can be reassured that the accomplishments and adaptability of earlier generations has prepared the community well for the changeable future.
Download or read book So Soon Forgotton written by Charles L. Fillmore and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
