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Beginning of State Reforestation
Beaver Creek Twp, MI
A concern over the depletion of Michigan’s forests led in 1899 to the creation of a forestry commission.
Charles W. Garfield
Grayling, MI
State Forest advocate Charles William Garfield (1848-1934) spent his life studying trees and forests.
Chief Shoppenagon
Grayling, MI
Chief David Shoppenagon was born in Indianfields, a Chippewa Indian Village in the Saginaw River Valley.
Douglas House, The
Lovells Twp., MI
Canadian-born entrepreneur Thomas E. Douglas constructed a sawmill and general store in the logging community of Lovells around 1898.
Michelson Memorial United Methodist Church
Grayling, MI
In 1882, residents of Grayling built the town’s first church for the Methodist Episcopal congregation that had organized in 1879.
Officer's Club
Grayling, MI
The Camp Grayling Officer’s Club and the land on which it is constructed were given to the state of Michigan by Rasmus Hanson, a...
Return of Kirtland's Warbler
Grayling, MI
The Kirtland’s warbler was first identified in 1851 from a specimen collected on Dr. Jared Kirtland’s Ohio farm.
Thirty-second Red Arrow Division
Grayling, MI
After American entry into World War I in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson ordered all of Michigan’s National Guard to Camp Grayling.