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Lumbering in the Great Lake State
Grace Gillengerten Præteritum Michigan contributor The beautiful Michigan we know today was once called a land worth nothing unless you wanted to raise frogs or mosquitoes. After land surveys were taken in the first half of the 1800s, the knowledge of Michigan’s dense and vast pine forests spread far and wide. Soon enough, Michigan became…
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From our latest contributor, Grace Gillengerten – stay tuned!
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The Boardman, a Post-Industrial River?
by David Siwik, Præteritum Editor Mention Michigan industry and many people will think immediately of the southern part of the state, and for good reason. Southern Michigan cities from Muskegon to Grand Rapids, from Benton Harbor to Detroit, while varying greatly in size, share in common an industrial heritage. Yet the northern part of the state too…
