Historical Markers in Empire, Michigan

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Historical Markers in Empire, Michigan

1 ► Michigan, Leelanau County, Empire — 16 — Empire Methodist Church —

The "Empire Methodist Church" - built in 1895. The Empire Area Methodists gathered here for services, Sunday school, weddings and funerals till their new church was built in 1963. It is now the Masonic Temple. — — Map (db m98318) HM

2 ► Michigan, Leelanau County, Empire — Mother Bear Is Migrating — Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore —

Do you see her? The Sleeping Bear is the large dune about a mile away, perched along the edge of the bluff. She hardly looks like a bear now, but in August 1721, French historian Pierre Charlevoix canoed past the dunes and described "a kind of bush" . . . — — Map (db m208027) HM

3 ► Michigan, Leelanau County, Empire — Of Wrecks and Water Trails — Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore —

…scarcely had we gotten out into Lake Michigan than we were beset by a horrible tempest and in an instant out rudder was broken to pieces…Not being able to control our course, we were during the night the toy of gigantic waves which . . . — — Map (db m208025) HM

4 ► Michigan, Leelanau County, Empire — The Legend of the Manitou Islands and the Sleeping Bear — Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

Once, long ago, in the land called Wisconsin across the great lake, there was terrible hunger and many people died. A bear and two little cubs were trying to leave that place and come around the lake where there would be more food. They . . . — — Map (db m208029) HM

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