On Lakeside Drive, 0.2 miles north of Main Street (State Route 25), on the left when traveling south.
The Gillingham Fish Company was established in 1886; the Bay Port Fish Company in 1895. At their peak in the 1920s and 1930s, they shipped tons of perch, walleye, herring, whitefish and carp to New York and Chicago in refrigerated railroad cars. . . . — — Map (db m160705) HM
On South Unionville Road (Michigan Route 25) 0.6 miles south of Pigeon Road (Michigan Route 142), on the right when traveling north.
Small fires were burning in the forests of the Thumb, tinder-dry after a long, hot summer, when a gale swept in from the southwest on Sept. 5, 1881. Fanned into an inferno, the fires raged for three days. A million acres were devastated in Sanilac . . . — — Map (db m160706) HM
Near South Unionville Road (State Highway 25) 0.6 miles south of Pigeon Road (State Highway 142), on the right when traveling north.
Brown
Roadside Park
Honoring
Henry A. Hamp
As chief of right-of-way acquisition for state highways during the last 19 years of his 30-year Department career (1951-1981), Mr. Hamp supervised the acquisition of some 43,000 land . . . — — Map (db m180748) HM
On Cedar Street east of 2nd Street, on the left when traveling east.
Stagecoaches played an important part in developing the Midwest. Michigan’s frontier “fever” peaked in the decade from 1830 to 1840 with a 600 percent population increase. Stagecoaches attempted to fill the demand for fast and relatively . . . — — Map (db m160627) HM
