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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM293M_buster-keaton_Muskegon-MI.html
Renowned actor and filmmaker, who called Muskegon home. Best known for his silent film comedies and dead-pan delivery, Keaton's long career began in Vaudeville at three years old and included television, Broadway and modern film.
"Keaton's e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM293L_muskegon-fishing-reef_Muskegon-MI.html
One quarter mile from this
marker is constructed the
first underwater fishing reef
of its kind in the Great Lakes
built entirely of quarried dolomite
barged from Wisconsin.
This reef is dedicated to
public fishing in Michigan
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM293K_white-lake-yacht-club_Whitehall-MI.html
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By 1897 most of White Lake's bustling sawmills had given way to cottages and small hotels. Promoters advertised the area's cool temperatures as relief from the summer heat of cities and drew thousands of people to the area, many from Chica…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM293J_lumbering-on-white-lake-staples-and-covell-mill_Whitehall-MI.html
side 1 - Lumbering on White Lake
Charles Mears built White Lake's first sawmill in 1838. Four mills operated on White River tributaries during the next decade. Axmen, swampers, skidders, loaders, and haulers cut and moved pine, hemlock, and cedar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25R0_bluffton-actors-colony-buster-keaton_Muskegon-MI.html
Bluffton Actors' Colony
In 1908, Joe Keaton, actor Paul Lucier, and agent Lew Earl founded the Actors' Colony. By 1911 over two hundred theater personalities flocked to Bluffton each summer. They included Keaton, his wife, Myra and his son Joseph…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25QZ_lakeside_Muskegon-MI.html
The village of Lakeside grew up around the A.V. Mann and Company sawmill, which operated from 1868 to 1889. In 1888 Lakeside was annexed to Muskegon. That year fire ravaged the business district. Despite the fire, Lakeside continued to boom as a w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20ZZ_union-depot_Muskegon-MI.html
The Union Depot opened in 1895 to serve the Chicago & West Michigan Railway; the Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad; and the Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Railroad.
A.W. Rush and Son of Grand Rapids designed the Richardson Romanesque station.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20ZY_hackley-house_Muskegon-MI.html
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This three-story wood frame building is one of Michigan's most splendid examples of Queen Anne architecture.
With juxtaposition of masses created by roof lines, chimneys, tower and porte-cochere it has become a symbol of Muskegon.
F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20ZX_hume-house_Muskegon-MI.html
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Built in 1887 - 1889, this massive Queen Anne style house served the Thomas Hume family through four generations.
This architect for this, as well as the Hackley house, was David S. Hopkins of Grand Rapids.
The structure behind the two…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L8S_jean-baptiste-recollect-trading-post_North-Muskegon-MI.html
Near this site, on the shore of Muskegon Lake, stood the first Indian fur trading post in Muskegon County. It was established in 1812 by Jean Baptiste Recollect, a French fur trader believed to be this area's first white settler. Jean Recollect re…