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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U49_improving-justice-historical_Manistee-MI.html
One lazy summer day in 1911, Manistee residents Herbert Harley and Charles Ruggles discussed reform of the American justice system while floating in a skiff on Lake Michigan near here. That conversation led to the birth of the American Judicature …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U48_historic-manistee-historical_Manistee-MI.html
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The Manistee Harbor
Pictured is the Manistee Harbor in 1880 with intense activity of pleasure boating, commercial fishing, schooners, steamers and lumber freighters.
The Manistee Water Works
540 First Street
The old Holly Water Works…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U47_explore-the-heritage-and-history-historical_Manistee-MI.html
As early as 10,000 years ago, nomadic people were following the bountiful harvests of fish and game the Manistee River provided. By 500 B.C., natives began settling this land, setting up camps and farming.
The lands were controlled by the Algonqu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U45_furniture-factories-historical_Manistee-MI.html
It is a popular misconception that Nineteenth Century lumbermen believed the timber would last forever. In reality the exact opposite was true; every lumberman in Manistee could readily tell you the amount of timber he owned and the year it would …
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…