Presque Isle County was organized in 1871. The County's original courthouse was built on this site in 1872. The property was donated to the County by William Rogers, namesake of Rogers City. The community's first cemetery and a tennis court also . . . — — Map (db m123691) HM
The large craftsman-style bungalow that we know as the Bradley House was built in 1913-14 by carpenter and planning mill operator George Radke for his family. Radke was still finishing the trim work on the house in 1914 when he succumbed to a . . . — — Map (db m302018) HM
Evidence is sketchy about the beginning of commercial fishing at Rogers City. The "Fish Docks," shown here in this photo, believed to have been from the 1940's, shows three of the local gill net fishing boats and some of the "sheds," some of which . . . — — Map (db m302114) HM
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior
Rogers Theater
1937 — — Map (db m278024) HM
On the left is a portion of the first housing development constructed by Michigan Limestone. Along Lake Street, the
homes were largely for management and technical personnel. The home on the left, the largest in the development, was for the . . . — — Map (db m278090) HM
One of the hallmarks of Rogers City today is it's magnificent shoreline with one of the finest marinas on the Great Lakes and includes playgrounds, the pavilion, basketball courts, boat launching and fish cleaning facilities, performance shell, . . . — — Map (db m278096) HM
Forty Mile Point Lighthouse
During the late 1800s, the U.S. Lighthouse Board created a system of coastal lights along Lake Huron's Michigan shore so that mariners would always be within sight of at least one.
With a light south of Forty . . . — — Map (db m221642) HM
The Calcite Pilot House was saved and retired to Rogers City where it was installed as a tourist attraction at Harbor View overlooking the Calcite Plant. Over the years, she was visited by thousands of people. Eventually, the Pilot House was . . . — — Map (db m122335) HM
Frederick Burnham settled in Michigan in the 1840s. In 1850 he married Julia Clark in Ann Arbor. Beginning in the 1850s, the Burnhams acquired large tracts of Presque Isle County's rich timberlands. Among their holdings was the land purchased in . . . — — Map (db m66627) HM
Since 1912, the skyline south of Rogers City has been dominated by the buildings,
machinery, and storage piles of the Calcite Plant, the world's largest limestone quarry operation. The operation was founded by New York investment banker William . . . — — Map (db m278086) HM
(English)
In memory of our common ancestors, who left their
homes in the vicinity of Poznań, Poland and established
the town of Posen in the New World 1870.
—The citizens of Poznań, Poland and Posen, Michigan, . . . — — Map (db m233684) HM
A total of 4,615 people were affected by the fire, including 150 families who were
completely burned out and another 80 partially burned out. Another 700 families
experienced small losses.
A massive relief effort was mounted to provide the . . . — — Map (db m247246) HM
This photo shows the area around the Metz depot of the Detroit & Mackinac Railway
(D&M) after the fire. The photo was taken from the approximate location of this sign. The
workers are digging at the location previously occupied by the depot. The . . . — — Map (db m247244) HM
The first settlers in the northern Michigan wilderness area that later became Metz Township
were four German immigrant farmers who took up homesteads shortly after passage of the
Homestead Act of 1862. In the 1870s, the first Polish immigrants . . . — — Map (db m247106) HM
The growth of the settlement at Metz was directly attributable to the establishment of a
Detroit & Mackinac (D&M) Railway depot there in 1895. While the depot was closed the
following year, it reopened in 1901 and continued to serve the community . . . — — Map (db m247217) HM
In the Metz area, 84 of 110 families were left homeless in the aftermath of the horrendous
fire. With frost already settling over the area and the brutal northern Michigan winter not far
off, providing adequate shelter for the survivors was a . . . — — Map (db m247245) HM
The Metz Fire of 1908 began west of Millersburg sometime on the morning of October 15, 1908.
Driven along by gale force winds, by that night the fire had burned all the way to the Lake Huron shore
and threatened to destroy the two lighthouses . . . — — Map (db m247102) HM
This building was constructed in 1878 for Frederick Denny Larke and his wife Augusta. Larke was one of the founders of Rogers City, and an unparalleled advocate of community development. Originally a general store, it was converted to a drug store . . . — — Map (db m123692) HM
The center portion of this building, with its gabled roof, was built in 1899 for Charles Osgood, proprietor of the first bank in the county—the Presque Isle County Bank. The original building is shown in this 1907 photo. Charles Osgood is on . . . — — Map (db m123693) HM
As a young man, Horace Huffman loved the out-of-doors.
Known as Huffy to all who knew him, Horace traveled with his family
each summer from Dayton, Ohio to Sand Lake near Grant, Michigan,
then attended camp in Minnesota, and upon graduation . . . — — Map (db m247341) HM
Rogers City's art deco-style Post Office was built in 1940 at a cost of $60,365. The photo shows the building shortly after it opened in 1940. Both the exterior and interior have changed little during the intervening years.
One of the highlights . . . — — Map (db m123754) HM
On this site stood the three-story, red brick Bertram Building shown in the photo. When it was completed in 1887, Third Street was only a rough path through the woods. F. E. Bertram, a sawmill operator and store owner, had the bricks brought in from . . . — — Map (db m123697) HM
Since the 1912 opening of the Calcite quarry, the world's largest limestone mine, many residents of the Rogers City area have earned their livings sailing on the freighters that deliver stone from the quarry to ports throughout the Great Lakes. . . . — — Map (db m278074) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
