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.
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."
The Wreck of the Marinette
This site tells the story of the
wreck of a schooner called the Marinette. This ship was
lost in a storm off Watervale on November, 19, 1886. The site includes
videos of dives near the wreck.
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."
Benzie
Area Historical Museum
This site about the Benzie Area Historical Museum includes a page with the
history of the building used to house the museum.
If you have suggestions for additional sites, please
contact us.
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