Osceola
"Unto a New Land"
Tustin, MI
Swedish immigrants, anxious to escape famine and an unsympathetic government, flowed into the Midwest frontier of America from the 1870s...
Congregational Church
Hersey, MI
The First Congregational Church of Hersey was formally organized in 1870.
Founding of Marion
Marion, MI
Irish millwright Christopher Clark and his Canadian wife, Marion Hixon Clark, settled here in 1875 after purchasing 240 acres of virgin...
Joseph W. Guyton
Evart, MI
Joseph W. Guyton (1889-1918) lived most of his life near Evart, working as a farmer, plumber, and well driller.
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church
Tustin, MI
In 1870 the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, and the Evangelical Church of Sweden...