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Michigan's Little Known Ghost Towns - Lost Ports, Mining Camps And Vanished Company Towns
Season 7 Episode 5
Michigan is full of towns that once had mills, mines, hotels, post offices, rail depots, docks, stores and big plans. Then the timber ran out. The co…
4 months, 1 week ago
Pere Marquette Docks Show How Arcadia Served The Great Lakes
Season 7 Episode 4
The Pere Marquette docks in Arcadia, Michigan, once connected a small Lake Michigan village to a much larger world. In this episode of End of the Roa…
4 months, 1 week ago
Ora Labora: Michigan’s Lost Colony on Wild Fowl Bay
Season 7 Episode 3
In 1863, a group of German Methodist families came to the edge of Wild Fowl Bay near Bay Port, Michigan, with a bold plan. They would build a Christi…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Hillman, Michigan: Fire, Rails and Lake Avalon in a Northern Village
Season 7 Episode 2
Hillman, Michigan, began as Brush Creek, a small settlement shaped by timber, water, farm trade and the Thunder Bay River. In this episode of Michiga…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Pull Over, Kids: Michigan’s Roadside Tourist Attractions
Season 7 Episode 1
Michigan’s roadside tourism boom turned two-lane highways into stages for bear camps, tourist towers, novelty buildings, tiny chapels, diners and roa…
5 months ago
Apartment 211: How the Collingwood Massacre Ended Detroit’s Purple Gang
Season 6 Episode 12
During Prohibition, Detroit’s location across from Windsor helped turn the Detroit River into a major liquor-smuggling route. From that underworld ca…
5 months ago
They Ran Like Mad: The 1908 Metz Fire and Northern Michigan’s Burning Year
Season 6 Episode 11
In October 1908, northern Michigan burned. The Metz Fire destroyed a village, killed dozens and left hundreds homeless.
At the same time, fires threat…
5 months ago
The Day the Trolleys Stopped: Michigan’s Lost Interurban Age
Season 6 Episode 10
Michigan once had a broad electric interurban rail network that linked Detroit, small towns, farms, factories and lake resorts.
By the late 1920s and …
5 months ago
The Men Who Didn’t Want to Leave: German POWs in Michigan
Season 6 Episode 9
During World War II, more than 6,000 German and Italian prisoners of war were held in Michigan. They cut pulpwood in the Upper Peninsula, worked in f…
5 months ago
The Gogebic Michigan Highwayman - The Last Stagecoach Robbery in North America
Season 6 Episode 8
In the summer of 1889, wealthy tourists stepped off Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad trains bound for the White House Inn on Lake Gogebic. Wh…
5 months, 1 week ago