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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1URX_fog-signal-building-historical_Frankfort-MI.html
On December 12, 1891, the Lighthouse Board issued a "Notice to Mariners" informing them that a long sought steam-powered fog signal, featuring two 10-inch whistles similar to those then used on locomotives, had been installed at Point Betsie. This…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1URV_oil-house-historical_Frankfort-MI.html
Prior to 1892, large quantities of kerosene that fueled Point Betsie's beacon and apartment lamps, etc., was kept at the base of the lighthouses tower. As at other light stations, a separate building was erected here in 1892 to provide safer stora…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1URR_gravestone-at-point-betsie-historical_Frankfort-MI.html
Yes, we have a gravestone at Point Betsie but alas no grave. Edward Wheaton, Keeper 1934 to 1946, made this gravestone to honor his mother, Martha Madsen Wheaton, 1857 to 1941. She died in Cheboygan.
Keeper Edward Wheaton could not lift the grave…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U4I_war-memorial-historical_Frankfort-MI.html
To the men
who have devoted
their time and their lives
that we may continue
to live in freedom
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U4H_marquettes-death-historical_Frankfort-MI.html
On May 18, 1675, Father Jacques Marquette, the great Jesuit missionary and explorer, died and was buried by two French companions somewhere along the Lake Michigan shore of the lower peninsula. Marquette had been returning to his mission at St. Ig…