Grayling Township in Crawford County, Michigan — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Major Edward E. Hartwick

Michigan 1871 • France 1918

Photographed by Joel Seewald, July 1, 2024

1. Major Edward E. Hartwick Marker

Inscription. Engineer • Soldier
Martyr to his country
Lieut., 9th Cavalry, USA
Spanish American War
Major, 20th Engineers, USA
World War

That his name may be recorded
and his virtues remembered, this
remnant of the primeval pine
forests which he loved is given
by his wife
Karen B. Hartwick
to the people of this
commonwealth, and this
tablet is erected by
The State of
Michigan

Erected by The State of Michigan.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & Patriotism • War, Spanish-American • War, World I.

Location. 44° 44.448′ N, 84° 39.839′ W. Memorial is near Grayling, Michigan, in Crawford County. It is in Grayling Township. It can be reached from State Park Drive / Monarch Drive 0.8 miles north of Hartwick Pines Road (State Highway 93). Marker is located at the Hartwick Pines State Park Visitor Center, on the boardwalk near the main parking lot at the east end of Monarch Drive. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Grayling MI 49738, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Northern Michigan Lower Peninsula.

It is also in the American Midwest

and on the Great Lakes.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Great North Woods,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Hartwick Pines State Park (within shouting distance of this marker); Forest Heritage Trail (approx.

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half a mile away); Glacial Landscape (approx. half a mile away); Local Wildlife (approx. 1½ miles away); Volunteers Matter (approx. 2.8 miles away); Forest Caretakers (approx. 2.8 miles away); Camp Grayling (approx. 5.1 miles away); Michigan Grayling (approx. 5.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Grayling.

More about this memorial. Marker is an embossed elliptical tablet, mounted horizontally, at waist-level, atop a bevel-cut log.

Regarding Major Edward E. Hartwick. The greatest tribute to Major Hartwick came from his wife. Karen Hartwick purchased an 8,236-acre tract of land northeast of Grayling, and in 1927 she gave it to the State of Michigan as a memorial to her husband. This land, including 80 acres of old growth white pine – the largest remaining stand in the Lower Peninsula – became the Edward E. Hartwick Pines Park, today widely known as Hartwick Pines State Park.

Also see . . . Edward Edgar Hartwick (1871–1918). Military History Fandom website entry:
Hartwick graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with high honors in

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, August 19, 2013

2. Major Edward E. Hartwick Marker

1893. He was appointed a second lieutenant in the 4th Cavalry and, shortly thereafter, transferred to the 9th Cavalry Regiment, nicknamed the Buffalo Soldiers. The outbreak of the Spanish-American War took him and the 9th to Cuba. Following the United States' entry into World War I Hartwick volunteered for service and was commissioned a major in the 20th Engineers. He sailed to Europe in November 1917. In March 1918, Hartwick became ill with meningitis and on March 31, 1918, at age 46, he died near Bordeaux, France. He was buried in Talence Cemetery "with full military honors." (Submitted on February 22, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

Photographed by Joel Seewald, July 1, 2024

3. Major Edward E. Hartwick Marker

Edward E. Hartwick Marker (<i>wide view; Hartwick Pines State Park Visitor Center in backround</i>) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, August 19, 2013

4. Edward E. Hartwick Marker (wide view; Hartwick Pines State Park Visitor Center in backround)

Edward E. Hartwick, West Point cadet image. Click for full size.

via Crawford AuSable School District, unknown

5. Edward E. Hartwick, West Point cadet

Credits. This page was last revised on July 21, 2024. It was originally submitted on February 22, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 443 times since then and 26 times this year. Last updated on March 31, 2021, by Carl Gordon Moore Jr. of North East, Maryland. Photos: 1. submitted on July 18, 2024, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan. 2. submitted on February 22, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. 3. submitted on July 18, 2024, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan. 4. submitted on February 22, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. 5. submitted on December 25, 2021, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.