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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U44_u-s-s-michigan-historical_Manistee-MI.html
An 1818 Treaty allows the United States and Canada to each maintain one warship of limited armament on the Great Lakes. For most of a century the U.S.S. MICHIGAN served as the U.S. warship.
The MICHIGAN was built on the frontier in 1843 at Pittsb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U3R_the-lyman-building-historical_Manistee-MI.html
A prominent Manistee jeweler, who's place of business was two doors west at the corner of River and Oak Streets, contracted to have the structure at 427 River Street (the west half of the current building) built in the summer of 1883. Construction…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U3N_the-haley-block-historical_Manistee-MI.html
The "Haley Block" was the last of a succession of buildings in this area beginning sometime prior to 1871. These buildings were built and rebuilt to house the Haley Sisters Millinery Shop. Five successive structures burned, the first being lost in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U3L_the-tunnel-historical_Manistee-MI.html
For nearly a hundred years a small building stood across the River which looked like a Dutch windmill without a vane. The building was not a windmill at all, but instead the entrance to a utility tunnel which runs under the River. Today the locati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U3K_pere-marquette-line-steamers-historical_Manistee-MI.html
The last firm to service the Manistee passenger and package freight business was the Pere Marquette Line Steamers. The companies engaged in this business required extensive dockside facilities to service their clientele. These facilities lined up …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U3J_the-gardner-building-historical_Manistee-MI.html
In the summer of 1878, this building was constructed by John Mee and leased to Clark D. Gardner. The building measures 24 X 50, described following its construction as "without exception the finest of its kind north of Grand Rapids". It was painte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U3I_the-thompson-building-historical_Manistee-MI.html
Originally built by John Thompson, the first floor housed the Russell & Ramsdell Hardware Store. The second floor was especially constructed with two large skylights to accomodate [sic] the studio of a photographer by the name of Miller. The build…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U3C_the-maple-street-bridge-historical_Manistee-MI.html
For the first 25 years after lumbermen settled in Manistee the river divided the community. People who later became prominent citizens spent their youth ferrying an occasional passenger across the river in canoes. After the Civil War, private ente…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U2T_manistee-city-library-historical_Manistee-MI.html
In 1885 a group of Manistee Ladies formed the Lakeside Club, whose primary goal was to create a library. In 1902 the club joined forces with the local literary society and successfully campaigned for a public library. The Andrew Carnegie Foundatio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U2S_manistee-county-war-memorial-a-war-memorial_Manistee-MI.html
In memory
of those from Manistee County
who gave their lives
in the Civil War
[Roll of Honored Dead]
in the Spanish American War
[Roll of Honored Dead]
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In memory
of …