The Michigan Historical Center
This site provides a wealth of knowledge about Michigan history. This includes a tour of the Michigan Historical Museum, details about historic sites in the state, old photographs, help for teachers, and stuff for kids.

Lumbering in Michigan
This is the online version of the Michigan Historical Museum exhibit. The online exhibit contains only two pages of information, but those pages have links to other web sites with more information. (ArcadiaMI.com's Lumbering exhibit)

Manistee County Historical Museum
This is the Manistee County Historical Society's web site. It contains information about the museum in the Lyman Building, the Waterworks museum, a summary of current exhibits, and lists of research collections. To join the Society, click here.

Manistee County - Michigan GenWeb
This site contains data pertaining to genealogy research in Manistee County, Michigan.

Life Along the Manitou Passage: The Age of Schooners
This site provides a tour of places like Point Betsie, Empire, and Sleeping Bear Point with a few optional side trips to define terms such as knots and the fresnel lens.

Brendon Baillod's Great Lakes Shipwreck Research
"I started this website in 1994 primarily as a link collection for my personal use. It was one of the first pages on the internet detailing information about Great Lakes shipwrecks. At that time, I had been actively researching Great Lakes maritime history for about ten years, but the internet immediately and dramatically improved my network of colleagues and access to information. In the ensuing years the website has grown modestly, had several facelifts and is now a principal resource for Great Lakes wreck divers and maritime historians."

The Great Lakes Shipwreck File by David Swayze
This database is the result of 16 years of research. According to its author, this "...is the most complete and accurate list of losses of Great Lakes commercial vessels in existence, but it may be considered to be a work in progress, since my research continues. It includes commercial vessels which were total losses or were declared total losses and later recovered, plus a few wrecks which were significant for other reasons (e.g. loss of life), but were later recovered."

Maritime History of the Great Lakes
"This site is an ongoing experiment in the design of a "digital library", a collection of documents intended to be of value to those researching Great Lakes History."

Bowling Green State University's
Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
"These projects are an attempt to take existing data sources and reformat them for online access. The HCGL has a collection of vessel data sheets created over the past thirty years and a collection of approximately 90,000 images of Great Lakes vessels. This image database is the end product of combining these two data formats into an online tool for researchers."

Michigan Law About Recovering Artifacts
This is an excerpt from the State of Michigan's "Compiled Laws Complete Through PA 91 of 2010" describing the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of 1994 Part 761, Aboriginal Record and Antiquities. Section 324.76106 includes the "Permit to recover, alter, or destroy abandoned property."

The Beaver Island Historical Society Web Site
Although this web site focuses on Beaver Island, its description of history, historic sites, and early settlers add to the patchwork of individual stories that comprise the history of this area.

Michigan Historical Markers
This site summarizes over 1,365 markers and includes photos of most of them. According to the site's author, "Each is a small piece of our state's past. When taken in total, they allow a more complete view of the development of the Great Lakes State."

The Ramsdell Theater
This is a commercial site that contains a section on the history of the Ramsdell Theater in Manistee, Michigan.

S.S. Milwaukee National Historic Landmark
Built in 1931, ..."City of Milwaukee hauled railroad cars between Michigan and Wisconsin for 50 years, serving the Grand Trunk Western, Pennsylvania, and Ann Arbor railroads." This web site provides photos and other information about this floating National Historic Landmark.

Michigan History Magazine
This part of the Michigan History Magazine web includes "selected short articles and excerpts from some of our most popular features."

Smithsonian Institution Libraries
This is featured content from the Smithsonian Institution's digital libraries including trade catalogs, images, online exhibitions, a search engine, and much more. You can get lost here.

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has a copy of all media published in the United States, and much of that information is available online. These collections include American historical documents and international documents. In particular, see Digital Collections and Services.Library of Congress.

NOVA: America's First Lady of the Air
This is an article about Harriet Quimby by Peter Tyson for NOVA's Online.  It focuses on her adult life as an aviatrix. NOVA Online also has an article called Antique Aviation by David Levin where you can listen to three pilots describe what it's like to fly pioneer aircraft including a Bleriot XI like the one Harriet flew.

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