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In 1850 Joseph Hackley came to Michigan from Wisconsin to serve as superintendent of construction for the Durkee, Truesdell and Company sawmill. In 1860 he purchased this house, built in 1857. Hackley and his first wife, Salina . . . — — Map (db m154389) HM
Hezekiah (1816-1896) and Lucinda
(1824-1884) Smith were free African
Americans who moved from Ohio to
Michigan and settled near Ferrysburg in
the 1840s. Hezekiah worked as
blacksmith and eventually became a
prominent landowner and farmer in . . . — — Map (db m229853) HM
Ottawa Beach is a well - preserved
example of the summer cottage
resorts that developed along the
Lake Michigan shore during the late
nineteenth century. In 1885 the West
Michigan Park Association purchased
eighty acres of land here. In . . . — — Map (db m165345) HM
This is an "Improved" German Krupp designed 75mm field gun built in 1910 in the historic Japanese village of Shikano on the Sea of Japan under Osaka Arsenal's control. It is one of 2,900 built and one of only thirty-three in existence presently . . . — — Map (db m241281) HM WM
In the mid-nineteenth century a site
called Blendon Landing was located
in this vicinity on the Grand River.
Blendon was organized in 1854 and
named for the Blendon Lumber Com-
pany. A logging train hauled timber
seven miles from the pine . . . — — Map (db m229866) HM
The 2500-acre Lafarge Marblehead Quarry is home to over 25 rare plant species and an unusual alvar plant community. Alvars are areas of exposed limestone or dolomite bedrock which are maintained in an open state by natural phenomena such as . . . — — Map (db m248430) HM
On this property is the site of a village once inhabited by Indians of the Iliniwek Tribe. The liniwek, or Illinois, were one of the three most significant Indian groups occupying Missouri at the time of first European contact. It is the only . . . — — Map (db m290815) HM
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