Charlevoix
Big Rock Point
Charlevoix, MI
Consumers Power Company (later Consumers Energy) opened the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant just west of here in 1962.
Boyne City United Methodist Church
Boyne City, MI
In 1874 the Reverend Andrew Wiggins and twelve pioneers organized the Methodist Episcopal Church of Boyne City, near Deer Lake.
First Congregational Church
Charlevoix, MI
The First Congregational Church was formed in 1882.
Greensky Hill Mission
Charlevoix, MI
Here in the 1840s the Chippewa Indian missionary, Peter Greensky, established a Protestant mission in an area where legend says Indian...
Holy Cross Catholic Church
St. James, Beaver Island, MI
Father Frederic Baraga (1797-1868) first landed on Beaver Island as a missionary in 1832.
Horton Bay
Boyne City, MI
Named for pioneer settler Samuel Horton, this village was founded as a lumbering community in 1876, complete with sawmill, shanty boys,...
John and Eva Porter Estate
East Jordan, MI
Elm Pointe is an eleven acre estate developed c. 1926 by John J. and Eva Porter.
Mormon Kingdom
Charlevoix, MI
About twenty miles northwest of here is Beaver Island.
Mormon Print Shop
Beaver Island, MI
This building was erected in 1850, by James Strang and his followers.
Norwood School
Charlevoix, MI
Norwood School District No. 1 was organized in 1867, one year before Orwin and Eliza P. Adams and Orvis D. Wood platted this village.
Norwood Township Hall
Norwood, MI
Norwood was settled in 1866 when Orvis Wood, Lucius Pearl, and Orwin Adams built a dock and sawmill on the shore of Lake Michigan.