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Northern Michigan

December 01, 2023

This article is about the region of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. For the northernmost peninsula of Michigan, see Upper Peninsula of Michigan. For the university, see Northern Michigan University. For the university's athletic program, see Northern Michigan Wildcats.

Northern Michigan, also known as Northern Lower Michigan (known colloquially to residents of more southerly parts of the state and summer residents from cities such as Detroit as "Up North"), is a region of the U.S. state of Michigan. A popular tourist destination, it is home to several small- to medium-sized cities, extensive state and national forests, lakes and rivers, and a large portion of Great Lakes shoreline. The region has a significant seasonal population much like other regions that depend on tourism as their main industry. Northern Lower Michigan is distinct from the more northerly Upper Peninsula and Isle Royale, which are also located in "northern" Michigan. In the northernmost 21 counties in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, the total population of the region is 506,658 people.[A]

Northern Michigan
Northern Lower Michigan
Lower Peninsula of Michigan
Northern Michigan is highlighted in light green.
CountryUnited States
StateMichigan
Population
 • Total506,658
Time zoneEastern: UTC −5/−4

Geography edit

See also: Protected areas of Michigan and Michigan § Geography

Boundary description edit

 
Northern Michigan is at the northern tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

Residents of Northern Michigan generally consider it to lie between Grayling and the Mackinac Bridge. The southern boundary of the region is not precisely defined. Some residents in the southern part of the state consider its southern limit to be just north of Flint, Port Huron, Grand Rapids, or Mount Pleasant, though those in Northern Michigan refer to this are as Mid Michigan. Others may restrict it to the area north of Bay City and Clare, using US Highway 10 as a reference point, which roughly marks the "fingers" of the mitten-like shape of the Lower Peninsula.[1] The topic of where "Up North" begins is often debated among Michiganders, with there being no definitive answer on the subject.[2]

The 45th parallel runs across Northern Michigan. Signs in the Lower Peninsula that mark that line are at Mission Point Light[3] (just north of Traverse City); Suttons Bay; Cairn Highway in Kewadin;[4] Alba, Michigan, on U.S. 131 Highway (approximately two miles north of County Road 42, with signs on both sides of the highway); Gaylord;[5] Atlanta; and Alpena.[6] These are six of 29 places in the U.S.A. where such signs or monuments are known to exist. One other such sign is in Menominee, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula.[7]

Definition excludes the Upper Peninsula edit

Across the Straits of Mackinac, to the north, west, and northeast, lies the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (the "U.P."). Despite its geographic location as the most northerly part of Michigan, the Upper Peninsula is not usually included in the definition of Northern Michigan (although Northern Michigan University is located in the U.P. city of Marquette), and is instead regarded by Michigan residents as a distinct region of the state, although residents of the Upper Peninsula often say that "Northern Michigan" is not in the Lower Peninsula. They insist the region must only be referred to as "Northern Lower Michigan", and this can sometimes become a topic of contention between people who are from different Peninsulas.[citation needed] The two regions are connected by the 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge.[8] Those living South of the bridge are known as trolls, while those living above the bridge are yoopers.

Other definitions of Northern Michigan edit

All of the northern Lower Peninsula – north of a line from Manistee County on the west to Iosco County on the east (the second orange tier up on the map) – is considered to be part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord.[9]

Topography, climate and soil edit

The geographical theme of this region is shaped by rolling hills, Great Lakes shorelines including coastal dunes on the west coast, large inland lakes, numerous rivers and large forests. A tension zone is identified running from Muskegon to Saginaw Bay marked by a change in soil type and common tree species.[10] North of the line the historic presettlement forests were beech and sugar maple, mixed with hemlock, white pine, and yellow birch which only grew on moist soils further south. Southern Michigan forests were primarily deciduous with oaks, red maple, shagbark hickory, basswood and cottonwood which are uncommon further north. Northern Michigan soils tend to be coarser, and the growing season is shorter with a cooler climate. Lake effect weather brings significant snowfalls to snow belt areas of Northern Michigan.

Glaciers shaped the area, creating a unique regional ecosystem. A large portion of the area is the so-called Grayling outwash plain, which consists of broad outwash plain including sandy ice-disintegration ridges; jack pine barrens, some white pine-red pine forest, and northern hardwood forest. Large lakes were created by glacial action.[11]

Weather edit

The region has the four seasons in their extremes, with sometimes hot and humid summer days (although, mild in comparison to some parts of the south) to subzero days in winter. With the expansive hardwood forest in Northern Michigan, "fall color" tourists are found throughout the area in early to mid-autumn.[12] When the spring rains come, many roads and bridges become impassable due to flooding or muddy to the point a four-wheel drive cannot pass. Snowfall varies throughout the region due to lake-effect snow from the prevailing westerly winds off of Lake Michigan: average yearly snow ranges from 141.4 inches or 3.59 metres in Gaylord to 52.4 inches or 1.33 metres in Harrisville.[13] Both the high and low temperature records for all of Michigan are held by communities in Northern Lower Michigan. The high is 112 °F or 44.4 °C set in Mio on July 13, 1936, and the low is −51 °F or −46.1 °C set in Vanderbilt on February 9, 1934.[14]

Population edit

 
View of downtown Traverse City, the largest city in Northern Michigan.
 
Downtown Cadillac, the second-largest city in Northern Michigan.
 
Alpena City Hall in Alpena, the third-largest city in the region.
 
Downtown Ludington, the fourth-largest city.
 
View of Manistee, the fifth-largest city.
 
Downtown Petoskey, the sixth-largest city.

In the northernmost 21 counties in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, the total population of the region is 506,658 people.[A] The most populated city in Northern Michigan is Traverse City, with over 15 thousand inhabitants. Grand Traverse County is the largest county in Northern Michigan by population, at just under 100,000. Grand Traverse County also contains the three most populous municipalities in Northern Michigan: Garfield Township, Traverse City (which partially extends into Leelanau County), and East Bay Township.

Cities, villages, and CDPs in Northern Michigan with a population above 1,000 in 2020
Municipality 2020 Population Area (sq mi) Area (km2) County(ies)
Traverse City 15,678 8.66 22.43 Grand Traverse, Leelanau
Cadillac 10,371 8.91 23.09 Wexford
Alpena 10,197 9.23 23.9 Alpena
Ludington 8,076 3.60 9.34 Mason
Manistee 6,259 4.53 11.73 Manistee
Petoskey 5,877 5.34 13.84 Emmet
Houghton Lake 5,294 7.49 19.4 Roscommon
Cheboygan 4,876 6.93 17.94 Cheboygan
Gaylord 4,286 5.00 12.95 Otsego
Boyne City 3,816 5.34 13.84 Charlevoix
Clare 3,254 3.83 9.92 Clare, Isabella
Skidway Lake 3,082 11.79 30.52 Ogemaw
Gladwin 3,069 2.90 7.51 Gladwin
Rogers City 2,850 8.36 21.65 Presque Isle
St. Helen 2,735 5.92 15.3 Roscommon
East Tawas 2,663 3.27 8.48 Iosco
Reed City 2,490 2.13 5.53 Osceola
West Branch 2,351 1.53 3.97 Ogemaw
Charlevoix 2,348 2.05 5.30 Charlevoix
East Jordan 2,239 3.92 10.15 Charlevoix
Harrison 2,150 4.03 10.43 Clare
Kalkaska 2,132 3.21 8.31 Kalkaska
Indian River 1,950 20.2 52.4 Cheboygan
Tawas City 1,834 2.13 5.51 Iosco
Grayling 1,867 2.08 5.39 Crawford
Evart 1,742 2.53 6.55 Osceola
Mio 1,690 8.98 23.3 Oscoda
Prudenville 1,643 3.62 9.4 Roscommon
Elk Rapids 1,642 2.01 5.20 Antrim
Greilickville 1,634 7.11 18.41 Leelanau
Standish 1,458 2.18 5.64 Arenac
Au Sable 1,453 2.13 5.52 Iosco
Kingsley 1,431 1.22 3.17 Grand Traverse
Rapid City 1,357 5.53 14.31 Kalkaska
Mancelona 1,344 1.00 2.60 Antrim
Harbor Springs 1,274 1.29 3.35 Emmet
Manton 1,258 1.61 4.18 Wexford
Frankfort 1,252 1.58 4.10 Benzie
Scottville 1,214 1.49 3.86 Mason
Beaverton 1,145 1.33 3.44 Gladwin
Chums Corner 1,065 2.79 2.66 Grand Traverse
Bellaire 1,053 1.99 5.16 Antrim
Lakes of the North 1,044 16.73 43.44 Antrim

The area was populated by many different ethnicities, including groups from New England (Maine, Vermont, New York), Ireland, Germany, and Poland. The Odawa nation is located in Emmet County (Little Traverse Band of Odawa Indians). Other Native American reservations exist at Mount Pleasant and on the Leelanau Peninsula.

Counties edit

 
21 counties in Northern Michigan

There are 21 counties traditionally associated with Northern Michigan:

County 2020 Population Land Area (sq mi) Land Area (km2) Seat
Alcona County 10,167 675 1,750 Harrisville
Alpena County 28,907 572 1,480 Alpena
Antrim County 23,431 476 1,230 Bellaire
Benzie County 17,970 320 800 Beulah
Charlevoix County 25,597 416 1,080 Charlevoix
Cheboygan County 26,152 715 1,850 Cheboygan
Crawford County 23,988 556 1440 Grayling
Emmet County 34,112 467 1,210 Petoskey
Grand Traverse County 95,238 464 1,200 Traverse City
Iosco County 25,237 549 1,420 Tawas City
Leelanau County 22,301 347 900 Suttons Bay
Kalkaska County 17,939 560 1,500 Kalkaska
Manistee County 25,032 542 1,400 Manistee
Missaukee County 15,052 565 1,460 Lake City
Montmorency County 9,153 547 1,420 Atlanta
Ogemaw County 20,770 563 1,460 West Branch
Oscoda County 8,219 566 1,470 Mio
Otsego County 25,091 514 1,330 Gaylord
Presque Isle County 12,982 659 1,710 Rogers City
Roscommon County 23,459 520 1,300 Roscommon
Wexford County 33,673 565 1,460 Cadillac

In addition to these 21, six more counties to the south are also occasionally referred to as Northern Michigan, but are generally considered to be part of other regions. This counties are:

County 2020 Population Land Area (sq mi) Land Area (km2) Seat
Arenac County 15,002 363 1,760 Standish
Clare County 30,856 564 1,460 Harrison
Gladwin County 25,386 502 1,300 Gladwin
Lake County 12,096 567 1,470 Baldwin
Mason County 29,052 495 1,280 Ludington
Osceola County 22,891 566 1,470 Reed City

Cities, villages, and unincorporated communities edit

Below is a list of cities, villages, and unincorporated communities in northern Michigan:

Indian reservations edit

Tourism edit

 
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
 
Ocqueoc Falls
 
Torch Lake

Summer destinations edit

See also: List of National Historic Landmarks in Michigan

Boating, golf, and camping are leading activities. Sailing, kayaking,[16] canoeing, birding, bicycling,[17][18][19] horse back riding, motorcycling, and 'off roading' are important avocations. The forest activities are available everywhere. There are a great many Michigan state parks and other protected areas which make these truly a 'pleasant peninsula.' These would include the Huron National Forest and the Manistee National Forest, plus the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (a 35-mile stretch of eastern Lake Michigan dunes)[20] and the Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness.

 
The Highlands at Harbor Springs

Non-summer destinations edit

Some of the downhill and Nordic skiing (cross-country) resorts located in the Northern Lower include Boyne Mountain, Boyne Highlands, Otsego Club & Resort (since 1939), Crystal Mountain Resort, Snow Snake Ski and Golf, Nub's Nob, Caberfae Peaks and Schuss Mountain. Some of these also serve as summer golf resorts. Frederic, Michigan, is a particularly noteworthy center for cross country skiing.

Fall activities include harvest festivals, seasonal beer and wine events, and fall color tours. Hunting in Northern Michigan is a popular fall pastime. There are seasons for bow hunting and a muzzle-loader season as well as for using modern rifle season. The opening day of deer season (November 15) is a major day for some residents. Some schools close November 15, due to low attendance as a result of the opening day of deer season.

In winter, a variety of sports are enjoyed by the locals which also draw visitors to Northern Michigan. Snowmobiling, also called sledding, is popular, and with hundreds of miles of interconnected groomed trails cross the region. Ice fishing is also popular. Tip-up Town on Houghton Lake is a major ice-fishing, snowmobiling and winter sports festival, and is unique in that it is a village that assembles out on the frozen lake surface. Higgins Lake also offers good ice fishing and has many snowmobiling, cross country skiing, and snowshoeing trails at the North Higgins Lake State Park. Grayling and Gaylord and their environs are recognized for Nordic skiing. Cadillac is reputed to be even more popular during the winter than it is in the summer.

Other tourist attractions edit

The Lumberman's Monument honors lumberjacks that shaped the area, exploiting the natural resource. It is located on the River Road National Scenic Byway, which runs parallel with the Au Sable River, and is a designated National Scenic Byway for the 23 miles (37 km) that go into Oscoda.[26] The State of Michigan has designated Oscoda as the official home of Paul Bunyan due to the earliest documented publications in the Oscoda Press, August 10, 1906, by James MacGillivray (later revised and published in The Detroit News in 1910).[27]

Hartwick Pines State Park is a 9,672-acre (39.14 km2) state park and logging museum located in Crawford County near Grayling and I-75. It is the third largest state park on Michigan's Lower Peninsula and the state's fifth-biggest park overall. The park contains an old growth forest of white pines and red pines that resembles the appearance of all of Northern Michigan prior to the logging era. Also to be noted is Interlochen State Park, which is the oldest state park and the other remaining stand of virgin Eastern White Pine in the Lower Peninsula.

The Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan is a community museum serving Alpena County and surrounding counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. Alpena is a port city on Lake Huron. The museum defines its role broadly — to preserve, protect and present history and culture closely connected with the heritage of Northern Michigan and the Great Lakes. The museum includes a small publicly owned planetarium.[28] The institution says "Our mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit authentic articles and artifacts of art, history, and science to inspire curiosity, foster community pride, and cultivate personal legacy."[29]

There were more than 150 past and present lighthouses around Michigan's Great Lakes coasts, including several in Northern Michigan. They serve as functioning warnings to mariners, but are also integral to the region's culture and history. See the list of Michigan lighthouses for more information on individual lighthouses.

Festivals edit

A number of annual festivals occur in Northern Michigan, including:

Festival Location Remarks and sources
AlpenFest and Alpenfest run/walk Gaylord [30][31]
Art on the Beach Oscoda [32]
Arts and crafts shows around the state Various [33]
Bass Festival Mancelona [34][35]
Blissfest (folk festival) Bliss Township [36][37]
Cadillac Chestnut Harvest Festival Cadillac [38] Held every year, on the second Saturday of October[39]
Cedar Polka Festival Cedar [40]
Celebration Days at Tawas Point State Park East Tawas, Michigan [41]
Charlevoix Waterfront Art Fair Charlevoix [42] 2nd weekend in August[citation needed]
Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac Lake Michigan [43]
Dulcimer FunFest Evart [44][citation needed]
Firemen's Memorial Festival Roscommon [45][citation needed]
Freedom Festival East Jordan [46][citation needed]
Great Lakes Bioneers Conference ??? [47][citation needed]
Great Lakes Lighthouse Festival Alpena [48][citation needed] According to Tim Harrison, Editor in Chief and publisher of Lighthouse Digest magazine, and President of American Lighthouse Foundation, "There is no other festival like it in the United States..."[49]
Harrisville Arts & Crafts Show aka "Harmony Weekend"[50] Harrisville Labor Day weekend[citation needed]
Hoxeyville Music Festival South Branch Township, Wexford County, Michigan [51][citation needed]
Kirtland Warbler Festival Roscommon County, Michigan [52]
Leland Wine & Food Festival Northport [53][citation needed]
Mackinac Island Fudge Festival Mackinac Island [54][citation needed]
Mackinac Island Lilac Festival Mackinac Island [55][citation needed]
Mackinac Island Music Festival Mackinac Island [56][citation needed]
Michigan Brown Trout Festival Alpena [57][58][59][60]
Mushroom Festival Mesick [61][citation needed]
National Cherry Festival Traverse City [62]
National Coho Salmon Festival Honor [63][citation needed]
National Forest Festival Manistee [64]
National Morel Mushroom Festival Boyne City [65][citation needed]
National Trout Festival Kalkaska [66][citation needed] End of April
Nautical Festival Rogers City [67][citation needed]
North American Snowmobile Festival Cadillac [68]
Northport's Harbor Day (and July 4 Celebration) Northport [citation needed]
Paul Bunyan Festival & Great Lakes Chainsaw Carving Competition Oscoda [32]
Petoskey Festival on the Bay Petoskey [69][citation needed]
Polish Festival Boyne Falls [70][citation needed]
Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race Lake Huron Ends on Mackinac Island [71]
Posen Potato Festival Posen [72]
Salmon Slam Northport, Michigan [citation needed]
Scottville Harvest Festival Scottville [73]
Timberfest Lewiston [74]
Tip-Up Town (ice fishing festival) Houghton Lake [75][citation needed]
Traverse Bay Farms Salsa Bar Festival Elk Rapids/Bellaire [76][citation needed]
Traverse City Film Festival Traverse City [citation needed]
Venetian Festival Charlevoix [77][citation needed]
Weyerhauser Au Sable River Canoe Marathon Grayling to Oscoda One leg of the "Triple Crown of Canoe Racing". This is one of the few pro-am canoeing events in the U.S., and winning times may be as long as 21 hours.[78][79][80]
WinterFest and Kalkaska [81] Includes a sled dog race.[82]
World Famous Labor Day Fish Boil Northport, Michigan [citation needed]

History edit

See also: Timeline of Michigan history and Michigan § History

Pre-colonial era: itinerant Native American tribes edit

 
Map showing the approximate location of major tribes and settlements around 1648[83]
 
Map of Iroquois expansion during Beaver Wars 1638–1711. Through the lucrative fur trade, the Iroquois gained European weapons, giving them an advantage against tribes in the Great Lakes region, whose lands they took over.

For thousands of years before the French and English set up colonies in the region, Northern Michigan was inhabited by Native American cultures and succeeding tribes. Northern Michigan was the southern extent of the area scholars believed occupied by prehistoric inhabitants known as the Laurel complex. They were part of the Hopewell Indian exchange system, which is named after a prehistoric tribe that existed in the Great Lakes region.[84]

According to Menominee tradition, this tribe's original homeland was farther north, near present-day Sault Ste. Marie and Michilimackinac. At some period before European contact (probably around 1600), they were forced southwest to the Menominee River by arrival of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi from the east.[85] Odawa history written by Andrew Blackbird records that Emmet County was thickly populated by a race of Indians that they called the Mush-co-desh, which means "the prairie tribe". The Mush-co-desh had an agrarian society and were said to have "shaped the land by making the woodland into prairie as they abandoned their old worn out gardens which formed grassy plains". Ottawa tradition claims that they slaughtered from forty to fifty thousand Mush-co-desh and drove the rest from the land after the Mush-co-desh insulted an Ottawa war party. At this same time, the areas surrounding the Straits of Mackinac, was home to the Michinemackinawgo. [86] They were a race of natives of small stature that were nearly wiped out by the Iroquois in the 1640s during the Beaver Wars. The remnants of this race were taken in by the Ojibwe and still exist today amongst the Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians. [87]

In the historic period, the Anishinaabe/Algonquian-speaking peoples known as the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi, formed a loose confederation which they called the Council of Three Fires. They inhabited areas surrounding the Straits of Mackinac, the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan, and the northern islands and shoreline of Canada along Lake Huron.

French and English colonial eras: fur trade and exploration based at the Straits edit

See also: North American fur trade
 
Much of New France's "Pays d'en Haut" (Upper Country) remained unexplored in the mid-1600s; Nicolas Sanson d'Abbbeville's 1650 map was the first to show all five Great Lakes.[88]

Initial colonial influence on Natives: French exploration and Beaver Wars edit

In 1608, Samuel de Champlain established Quebec as part of New France. He sent coureur des bois such as Étienne Brûlé into the woods to establish relations with the Indians. Around 1615 or 1616, Champlain traveled to Georgian Bay via the French River and met Ottawa and Huron Indians on the south end near Penetanguishene.[89][90][91][92] The French established the North American fur trade with Indian tribes. In the decades that followed, French explorers and missionaries continued to explore the "Upper Country" of New France that included the Upper Great Lakes. In 1634, Jean Nicolet passed through the straits of Mackinac on the way to Wisconsin.[93] While France colonized the interior lands along the St. Lawrence River, the Dutch and English began colonizing the East Coast of North America, setting up fur trade and arming the Iroquois along the east and southeast of the Great Lakes. Competition for trade and pelts resulted in the brutal Beaver Wars. The Iroquois pushed west into the Great Lakes territory, displacing the tribes who had settled there before. As a result of an Iroquois attack and dispersal of the Huron from Southern Ontario in 1649, the Huron sought refuge with the Ojibwe at Michilimackinac where eventually a Jesuit mission was established for their care.[94]

Jesuit Mission at St. Ignace (1671–1696) edit

 
After taking refuge at Michilimackinac during the Beaver Wars, many Wyandot (Huron) migrated to the areas of Detroit, Windsor, and northern Ohio in the early 18th century.[95]

Jesuit Father Marquette set up a mission in St. Ignace in 1671. While the Beaver Wars raged on, Marquette evangelized the Indians. From May 17, 1673, until Marquette's death near Ludington on May 18, 1675, Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet explored and mapped Lake Michigan and the northern portion of the Mississippi River. In 1679, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Father Louis Hennepin set out on Le Griffon to find the Northwest Passage; it was the first known sailing ship to sail in Northern Michigan. They sailed across Lake Erie, Lake Huron, and Lake Michigan through uncharted waters, which previously only men in canoes had explored. After Marquette's death, the mission was taken over by Father Phillip Pierson, and then Father Nouvel.[96]

Father Henri Nouvel was "superior of the Ottowa mission",[97] Nouvel served in this position from 1672 to 1680 (with a two-year break in 1678–1679), and again from 1688 to 1695.[98] Under Nouvel, a new chapel was built in approximately 1674. By 1683 the mission was so successful and prosperous that three priests, Fathers Nicholas Potier, Enjalran, and Pierre Bailloquet, were assigned there.[96] The establishment of a French garrison at St. Ignace in 1679 disrupted relations between the French and the local population, as the soldiers were less educated and amiable than the missionaries.

1680s: Fortification (Fort de Buade) at St. Ignace edit

In 1683, Governor Joseph-Antoine de La Barre ordered Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut and Olivier Morel de La Durantaye to establish a strategic presence on the north shore of the Straits of Mackinac, which connected Lake Michigan and Lake Huron of the Great Lakes. They fortified the Jesuit mission at St. Ignace and La Durantaye settled in as overall commander of the French forts in the northwest: Fort Saint Louis des Illinois (Utica, Illinois); Fort Kaministigoya (Thunder Bay, Ontario); and Fort la Tourette (Lake Nipigon, Ontario). He was also responsible for the region around Green Bay in present-day Wisconsin. In the spring of 1684, La Durantaye led a relief expedition from Saint Ignace to Fort Saint Louis des Illinois, which had been besieged by the Seneca (part of the Iroquois Confederacy) as part of the Beaver Wars; they sought to gain more hunting grounds in order to control the lucrative fur trade. That summer and again in 1687, La Durantaye led coureurs de bois and Indians from the Straits against the Seneca homeland in the territory of western upper New York state. During these years, English traders from New York penetrated the Great Lakes and also traded at Michilimackinac. This, and the outbreak of war between England and France in 1689, led to the new commandant Louis de La Porte de Louvigny directing construction of Fort de Buade in 1690.

1690s: Cadillac at Fort de Buade; St. Ignace Fort and Mission later abandoned edit

In the 1690s, commander Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac used Fort de Buade as a base of operations to explore and map the Great Lakes. Cadillac left St. Ignace in 1697 and the Jesuits vacated their residence and church by 1705.[99]

The Beaver Wars ended when the Great Peace of Montreal was signed in 1701 in Montreal by the French and 39 Indian chiefs including Kondiaronk (the chief of the Mackinaw-area Huron). When Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac left the area in 1701 to found Detroit, taking many of the St. Ignace residents with him, the importance of the mission declined dramatically.[96]

Early 1700s: Fort Michilimackinac established as a New France outpost edit

 
Map of French and British North American possessions in the early 18th century. After ceding Hudson's Bay to the British in the Treaty of Utrecht, France built forts such as Fort Michilimackinac to protect the New France fur trade from the British Hudson's Bay Company.
 
Northern Michigan as shown on a 1755 Map of New France showing various islands, land features, rivers, and settlements. (In French, "I. du Castor" means Beaver Island, "L'ours qui dort" means The Bear That Sleeps, and "Ance au tonnerre" means Thunder Bay). The map also shows several rivers that retained some similar names: Rue Aux Buscies, and Rue d'Oulamanittie, Rue du Pierre Marquet.

The St. Ignace mission remained open until 1705, when it was abandoned and burned by Father Étienne de Carheil.[100] It was reopened in 1712, and operated on the north shore of the Straits until 1741, when it was relocated to the south shore.[101] With the relocation of the mission, the exact location of Marquette's chapel was lost.[100]

In 1712, at the beginning of a 25-year war between the French and the Fox tribe, Canadian Governor Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil sent Constant le Marchand de Lignery to reoccupy the former post of Michilimackinac, which had been abandoned in 1696 by royal orders.

Around 1715 (during the First Fox War), the French re-established a Northern Michigan military outpost at a new site on the northern tip of the lower peninsula and called it Fort Michilimackinac. This location became the new locus for fur and other trade, and mission work with the natives.

Lignery returned to the command of Michilimackinac in 1722 after an absence of about three years fighting the Fox in Illinois. He carried out the orders of acting Governor Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil and (starting in 1726) New France governor Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois.

From 1720 to 1722, Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix stopped at Michilimackinac and other points in Northern Michigan while seeking a Pacific Ocean passage. In 1728, fur trader Augustin Langlade obtained a fur trading license at Michilimackinac. He and his half-Ottawa son Charles Michel de Langlade (born at the fort in 1729) would later strongly influence the Northern Michigan fur trade as well as French relations with Great Lakes tribes during the 1712 to 1733 Fox Wars and the 1754–1763 French and Indian War.

By 1745, the Odawa had created settlements down the coast of Lake Michigan into the Grand Traverse Bay area, with an approximate population between 1,550 and 3,000. This population varied with the seasons, as the tradition was to migrate inland to different camps (sometimes as far as to Illinois) depending upon the season.[102] Some Ojibwe bands also shared the Grand Traverse Bay region with the Odawa.[102]

In 1751, a Jesuit Mission to the Odawa was established in Manistee.[103]

1760s: Beginning of the British era edit

In the 1760s after defeating the French in the French and Indian War (and in the Seven Years' War in Europe), the British took control of the Straits of Mackinac and other French territory east of the Mississippi River. They encountered resistance from the Natives, who rose up in what was called Pontiac's War (1763–1766). On June 2, 1763 Ojibwe and Sauk warriors killed the majority of white residents at Fort Michilimackinac. Alexander Henry the elder, one of the survivors, was taken captive and transported to Beaver Island but was rescued by the Odawa Wawatam. The British built the more substantial Fort Mackinac at the site in 1780.[104][105]

The success of rebels in the American Revolutionary War led to another change in parties in the region. Great Britain formally ceded Fort Mackinac at Mackinac Island to the newly independent United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1783, but the British Army refused to evacuate the posts on the Great Lakes until 1796. At that time, they transferred the forts at Detroit, Mackinac, and Niagara to the Americans. British and American forces contested the area again throughout the War of 1812. The boundary was not settled until 1828, when Fort Drummond, a British post on nearby Drummond Island, was evacuated.

1780s to 1830s: United States territorial acquisition, continued fur trade, and territorial disputes edit

The entire Straits area was officially acquired by the United States from the British through the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and settlement permitted by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. However, much of the British forces did not leave the Great Lakes area until after 1794, when Jay's Treaty established U.S. sovereignty over the Northwest Territory with Northern Michigan part of "Knox County".[106] Between 1795 and 1815 a system of Métis (descendants of indigenous women who married French (and later Scottish) fur trappers and traders) settlements and trading posts was established throughout Michigan, Wisconsin, and to a lesser extent in Illinois and Indiana. As late as 1829 the Métis were dominant in the economy of Wisconsin and influential in Northern Michigan[107] in part because they were able to work as intermediaries between natives and white fur traders. US settlement of the Michigan Territory (established in 1805) was punctuated by misunderstandings with Native Americans over land ownership. Meanwhile, in 1804, Mackinac Island was the center of the American fur trade.[108] Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard was one of many of John Jacob Astor's trappers and voyageurs[109] who plied the waters of the Great Lakes in Mackinaw boats and collected pelts to be sold in Europe.[110] As US Congress passed trade and intercourse acts to regulate trade with the natives, the Office of Indian Trade established a US Trading Post "factory" at Mackinaw that was in place until the War of 1812.[111][112] One of the first engagements of the War of 1812, the Siege of Fort Mackinac was conducted by British and Native American. They captured the island soon after the outbreak of war between Britain and the United States. Encouraged by the easy British victory, more Native Americans subsequently rallied to their support. Native American cooperation was an important factor in several British victories during the remainder of the war. For the rest of 1812 and 1813, the British hold on Mackinac was secure since they also held Detroit, the territorial capital, which the Americans would have to recapture before attacking Mackinac. After the September 1813 Battle of Lake Erie, the British abandoned Detroit leaving an opportunity for the Americans try to retake the waters of Northern Michigan. In July 1814, as Commander of Fort Mackinaw Robert McDouall was struggling to supply war efforts Siege of Prairie du Chien, Americans attacked Mackinaw in July 1814 during the Battle of Mackinac Island. The Americans failed to take over the post, and the British held Mackinac Island until the peace in 1815, after which it was re-occupied by the US.[113][114]

Mackinac Island continued to be a locus of trade for the American Fur Company and was the site where Army doctor William Beaumont became Post surgeon[115] in 1820[116] and began conducting his famous digestion experiments on 19-year-old Alexis St. Martin between 1822 and 1833.[117][118] Mackinac Island was also the site where Henry Schoolcraft located his US Indian Agent headquarters starting in 1833. Following the 1830 Indian Removal Act, Schoolcraft negotiated the 1836 Treaty of Washington which opened up the land north of Grand Rapids for unequivocal legal ownership and settlement of lands in Northern Michigan, with provision that land sales would provide some monetary means to fund skills training for the Natives to assimilate to "civilized" life.

Despite the presence of fur trade, US military and Indian offices, and various tradesmen, the settled population of Michilimackinac (defined as all the settlements from Saginaw to Green Bay) was between 800 and 1000 for the time period between 1820 and 1840.[119]

Early coastal settlements in the 1830s through 1850s edit

 
The 1835 Tourist's Pocket Map of Michigan by S. Augustus Mitchell shows the relatively undeveloped Northern Michigan even as a steamboat route operated between Detroit and Chicago via Michilimackinac.
 
This inset image from the 1835 Tourist's Pocket Map of Michigan lists the stops taken along the 980-mile steamboat route between Detroit and Chicago via Michilimackinac. Northern Michigan stops (between miles 197 and 519) included Thunder Bay Isles, Sandy Bay Islands, Presqu' Isle, Bois Blanc Island, Mackinac Island, and Beaver Island.
 
Northern Michigan islands, rivers, and shore landmarks featured prominently on this 1835 Tourist's Pocket Map Of Michigan.
 
In the 1836 Treaty of Washington, Michigan tribes ceded claims to lands in the yellow (Royce No. 205) area above – covering eastern Upper Peninsula and the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan to the United States – and opened it to settlement.
 
As settlers arrived between 1840 and 1853, the state broke up the single Michilimackinac County and established platted counties across Northern Michigan. This 1853 map by S. A. Mitchell shows an improved understanding of the contours and inland lakes and streams of Northern Michigan based on recent land surveys.

Decline of Mackinaw and fur trade edit

By the 1840s, the American Fur Company was in steep decline as silk hats replaced beaver hats in European fashion.[120][121] The straits of Mackinac declined in influence as government offices moved towards the capital at Detroit. While fishing slightly increased, the loss of the fur industry dealt a blow to Michilimackinac's economic significance.[122]

Increased ship traffic along Northern Michigan coasts edit

The Erie Canal opened in 1825, allowing settlers from New England and New York to reach Michigan by water through Albany and Buffalo. This route opening and the incorporation of Chicago in 1837,[123] increased Great Lakes steamboat traffic from Detroit through the straits of Mackinac to Chicago.[124][125][126] While the coastal areas were travelled, practically nothing was known about the interior parts of Northern Michigan.[127] When Michigan became a state in 1837, one of its first acts was to name Douglass Houghton as the lead of the Michigan Geological Survey, an effort to understand the geological and mineralogical, zoological, botanical, and topographical aspects of the lesser known parts of Michigan.[128] Early settlers came to the coasts along Northern Michigan, including fishermen, missionaries to the Native Americans, and participants in early Great Lakes maritime industries such as fishing, lighthouses, and cutting cordwood for passing ships. In 1835, Lieutenant Benjamin Poole of the 3rd U.S. Artillery.[129] surveyed a former Indian path between Saginaw and Mackinac that would become known as the Mackinac Trail.

Indian missions edit

Missions to Native Americans included Rev. Peter Dougherty[130] and Rev. John Fleming's 1839 Presbyterian mission on the Old Mission Peninsula, William Montague Ferry's Presbyterian-affiliated 1825 Mission House / Mission Church on Mackinac Island, Magdelaine Laframboise and Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli's Catholic Sainte Anne Church on Mackinac Island in 1830, Frederic Baraga Francis Xavier Pierz and Ignatius Mrak's Catholic mission to the people of the Chippewa and Ottawa at L'Arbre Croche and Peshawbestown (on the Leelanau Peninsula), Peter Greensky's Methodist Greensky Hill church founded near the Little Traverse Bay in 1844, and an 1848 congregationalist mission founded by Chief Peter Waukazoo and Reverend George Smith in Northport (on the Leelanau Peninsula). The Strangite Mormon community move to Beaver Island in 1848 [131] brought additional conflicts as the Mormon leaders sought to enforce laws and restrict use of alcohol on the Beaver Archipelago.[132]

Fishing settlements edit

Key fishing settlements included "Fishtown" in Leland, Michigan, and the Beaver Island Archipelago.

Lighthouses edit

Early Northern Michigan lighthouses included Thunder Bay Island Light (1831), Old Presque Isle Light (1840), South Manitou Island Lighthouse (1840), DeTour Reef Light (1847), Waugoshance Light (1851), Grand Traverse Light (1852), Tawas Point Light (1853), Beaver Island Harbor Light (1856), Beaver Island Head Light (1858), and Point Betsie Light (1858).

While the United States Lifesaving Service did not establish a system of Great Lakes Lifeboat stations on the Great Lakes until the 1870s,[133] some volunteer stations, such as the North Manitou Island Lifesaving Station were created as early as 1854.

Tension between White settlement and Native American land claims edit

In the 1836 Treaty of Washington, Michigan tribes ceded claims to land in Northern Michigan—and opened it to settlement. In the 1840s, Odawa villages lined the Lake Michigan shore, especially from present-day Harbor Springs to Cross Village. The area on the tip of the peninsula was mostly reserved for native tribes by treaty provisions with the U.S. federal government until 1875. Early government had been centered around Mackinac Island and St. Ignace, but between 1840 and 1853, the state broke up this single large Michilimackinac County[134][135][136][137] and established names and boundaries of about 21 counties across Northern Michigan. This naming and surveying allowed specific platted lands to be sold at the Land Office.[138] Increased white immigration and homesteading in Northern Michigan brought difficulties in dispatching of Native American land claims stemming from the treaty of 1836. Bands of Chippewa and Odawa Indians sought redress through the Treaty of 1855;[139] by this 1855 treaty agreement, lands and payments would be set aside for individual Native American families related to the 1836 treaty, but after this treaty, the US would cease to owe anything ("land, money or other thing guaranteed to them") to Indians or their tribes.[140]

1860s to 1890s: Homestead Act settlements and industrial developments edit

 
Starting in the 1870s, railroads connected Northern Michigan to lower cities.

Increased settlement and establishment of port cities edit

Now that the land was surveyed and outstanding native land claims eliminated, Northern Michigan settlement increased even further. The Homestead Act of 1862 brought many Civil War veterans and speculators to Northern Michigan, by making 160 acre tracts of land available for $1.25 an acre.[141] The cutting of wood for passing ships morphed into a full-fledged lumber industry, contributing to the rise of port cities like Manistee, Traverse City, Charlevoix, and Ludington.

 
From 1836 to 1848, much of the Manistee River Valley, including Manistee itself, was an Ottawa Reservation.[142] During the lumbering era of the late 1800s, Manistee became a significant site for lumber mills. Huge numbers of white pine logs were floated down the river to the port at Manistee and eventually on to the lumber markets of Grand Rapids, Milwaukee and Chicago.

1870s: Arrival of rail infrastructure, rampant lumbering and fishing, and economic slowdown edit

Starting in the 1870s, railroads were built connecting Northern Michigan to larger industrial areas to the south. The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad reached Traverse City in December 1872 (via Walton Junction and Traverse City Rail Road Company) and reached Petoskey (known up to that point as "Bear River") in 1873.[143] The Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad completed its terminal at Ludington in 1874. While the Michigan Central Railroad reached Otsego County in the fall of 1872,[144] rail investments slowed for several years due to the financial panic of 1873 and the ensuing five year economic slowdown. Cheboygan and [145] Mackinaw City did not have rail service until the early 1880s.[146]

Despite setbacks from the Great Michigan Fire in 1871 in Manistee and other lumbering ports, lumbering in Northern Michigan greatly increased. New mechanical tools such as steam-powered (versus water-powered) sawmills and circular saws expanded the ability to process high volumes of lumber quickly. Narrow-gauge moveable rails made it possible to harvest timber year round, in previously inaccessible places away from rivers.[147] The Michigan lumber market experienced a crash in July 1877 [148][149] that coincided with the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. By 1880 the Great Lakes region would dominate logging, with Michigan producing more lumber than any other state.[150]

The commercial fishing industry also flourished in the 1880s. By 1881, the rich fishing areas around the Beaver Archipelago led to Beaver Island becoming the largest supplier of fresh-water fish in the United States.[151] By 1886, there was a drastic reduction in the amount of fishing produced, due to overfishing.[152] In 1893, the Michigan Fish Commission commissioned the University of Nebraska Zoologist Henry Ward to study the sources of food for Traverse Bay area fish.[153]

 
Passenger pigeons were hunted to extinction sometime after the 1870s, with the last large nesting in Petoskey, Michigan, in 1878.

The passenger pigeon was hunted in Northern Michigan as a source of food, but by the 1870s, a combination of increased population and economic scarcity led to over-hunting and eventual extinction. The massive flocks of passenger pigeons stopped darkening the skies of Northern Michigan, especially after the last large scale nestings and subsequent slaughters of millions of birds in 1874 and 1878. By this time, large nestings only took place in the north, around the Great Lakes. The last large nesting was in Petoskey, Michigan, in 1878 (following one in Pennsylvania a few days earlier), where 50,000 birds were killed each day for nearly five months. The surviving adults attempted a second nesting at new sites, but were killed by professional hunters before they had a chance to raise any young. Scattered nestings were reported into the 1880s, but the birds were now weary, and commonly abandoned their nests if persecuted.[154]

1880s: Emergence of resort and vacation industry edit

Rail connections to the large midwestern cities through rail centers like Kalamazoo led to settlers immigrating and wealthy resorters establishing summer home associations in Bay View Association near Petoskey, the Belvedere Club in Charlevoix, and other lakeside getaways. Starting in 1875 (until 1895) the 1,044-acre (422 ha) Mackinac National Park became the second National Park in the United States after Yellowstone National Park in the Rocky Mountains.

Sport fishing edit

 
After being used for floating logs in previous decades,[155] the Au Sable River in the 1880s became famous for fishing – first for grayling, and later for brook trout and brown trout.
 
Lumbering practices destroyed Arctic Grayling breeding grounds in rivers and led to their slow decline, and the sport fishing industry also contributed to the grayling's eventual disappearance from Northern Michigan.

Sport fishing along the Au Sable River became a tourist attraction for wealthy sportsmen from Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Toledo, Indianapolis, and Chicago.[156] After the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad reached Grayling in the late 1870s, it began to advertise hunting and fishing trips in Crawford County, home of the arctic grayling.[156] In the same way, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway published a "Guide to the Health, Pleasure, Game and Fishing Resorts of Northern Michigan reached by the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad" in 1882.[157] In 1880, Ansel Judd Northrup, a lawyer from New York, published a detailed account of his train trip to fish Northern Michigan, and he assessed the Au Sable, Manistee River, Cheboygan River, Pigeon River, and Jordan River for trout and grayling fishing.[158] The state of Michigan, having created a Board of Fish Commissioners in 1873, stocked rivers with whitefish, black bass, and non-native species such as California salmon, California trout, German carp, and brook trout.[159] The Board of Fish Commissioners created its first fish hatchery at Crystal Springs Creek in Pokagon and shipped rail cars full of small fish to streams across Michigan.[160][161] As the grayling vanished from the Au Sable, Manistee and other rivers, the state propped up the Northern Michigan fishing industry with non-native brook trout, brown trout, and rainbow trout (steelhead).[162] Ultimately, the Arctic grayling that had inhabited much of Northern Michigan[163] was eventually wiped out. The logging practice of using river beds to move logs in the springtime destroyed the breeding grounds for these fish.[164] Before they could recover, non-native sport fish such as brook trout[165] took over the grayling's habitat and made them disappear from northern Michigan.

Industrial growth and diversification edit

 
As the lumber industry declined, rail lines such as the BCG & A Railroad (1915) helped to access remote inland tracts of timber.

The effect of rail connections was ultimately transformative; timber and other goods could be produced in the north and shipped to urban markets to the south. Diverse industries developed, such as iron works, tanneries, mills, cement plants, and agricultural enterprises. By 1885, the intense harvesting and export of pine trees led to visible decline in the lumber industry's ability to produce white pine.[166] Logging in Michigan peaked in 1889.[167] Where available, hardwoods and hemlock were harvested, temporarily extending the life of lumbering in the area, especially around East Jordan, the Traverse Bay, and near Crawford County.[168] William Howard White's lumber railroad (Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Railroad Company), David Ward's Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad, and the East Jordan and Southern Railroad enabled access to remote timber areas. As lumbering declined, rail lines began to promote Northern Michigan as a "fresh air" resort destination,[169] and the logging companies promoted their cut-over, stump-filled tracts for their agricultural potential.[170]

20th century: resort era edit

Early resorts edit

The resort era flourished in lakeside areas of Northern Michigan even as the fishing and lumbering industries experienced slow decline. Historian Bruce Catton's memoir Waiting for the Morning Train (1972) documents his personal experiences of early 20th-century life in a small Northern Michigan town as Michigan's logging era was ending.[171] Ernest Hemingway also documented turn-of-the-century life in Northern Michigan through his "Nick Adams" stories; Hemingway's own parents were resorters, wintering in Oak Park, Illinois, but summering in the Windemere cottage on Walloon Lake starting in 1899.[172]

 
Traverse City State Park
 
North Higgins Lake State Park
 
Negwegon State Park

State parks edit

As lumbering died down, many parts of Northern Michigan returned to their forested state through conservation efforts. The Huron National Forest was set aside in 1909. and the Manistee National Forest was set aside in 1938. State parks were established as well, to include:

Ski resorts edit

Hanson Hills in Grayling was the first downhill ski area in Michigan. It opened in 1929 and was served by rail service.[175]Caberfae Peaks Ski & Golf Resort near Cadillac opened in 1938 and was served by rail service. Boyne Mountain Resort opened in 1948. Crystal Mountain in Benzie County opened in 1956. Nub's Nob opened in 1958 near Harbor Springs.

Decline of rail edit

As passenger railroad usage ended in the 1960s (due in part to increased automobile travel), aggressive promotion of Northern Michigan by local chambers of commerce led to many of the festivals and attractions that bring visitors north even today.

Education edit

Interlochen Center for the Arts is a notable arts center that offers a high-school-level academy and summer camp near Traverse City. There are also several institutions of higher education in Northern Michigan. Community colleges include North Central Michigan College (NCMC, pronounced "nuck-muck" by locals), Alpena Community College, Huron Shores Campus-Alpena Community College, Kirtland Community College, West Shore Community College, and Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) including the Great Lakes Maritime Academy, the only U.S. maritime academy on freshwater. Northern Michigan has arguably only one four-year university (depending on the definition of the southern boundary of the region), Ferris State University in Big Rapids. Other nearby universities are in the Upper Peninsula (Northern Michigan University and Lake Superior State University), as well as Central Michigan University and Ferris State University in the more southern reaches of the state. The University of Michigan runs the University of Michigan Biological Station out of Pellston, MI. Central Michigan University runs the CMU Biological Station on Beaver Island. Hillsdale College runs the biological station in Lake County.

Many four-year universities located downstate offer bachelor's and master's degree programs through Northwestern Michigan College's unique University Center program, located in Traverse City. The University Center, located in Traverse City, is a joint program with Northwestern Michigan College and various universities around the state that allows local students to "attend" universities that offer bachelor's and master's degrees programs not available through NMC, a two-year college, locally without leaving Northern Michigan. NMC supplies the facilities while the senior universities provide the education and endorsement. Universities offering programs here include Michigan State University, Western Michigan University, Central Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, Ferris State University, Spring Arbor University, and others.[176]

Economy edit

See also: Michigan § Economy

The economy of Northern Michigan is limited by its lower population, few industries and reduced agriculture compared to lower Michigan. Seasonal and tourism related employment is significant. Unemployment rates are generally high. (In June 2007, seven of the ten highest unemployment rates occurred in counties in the Northern Michigan area.[177] Historically, Fur trade, lumbering and commercial fishing were among the most important industries. The fur trade essentially died out in the 1840s. Logging is still important but at a mere fraction of its heyday (1860–1910) output. Commercial fishing is a minor activity.

Vacation and tourism edit

A major draw to Northern Michigan is tourism. Real estate, especially condominiums and summer homes, is another significant source of income. Because money spent in the real estate and tourism market in Northern Michigan is dependent upon visitors from southern Michigan and the Chicago area, the Northern Michigan economy is sensitive to downswings in the automobile and other industries.[178]

Agriculture edit

 
This map of hardiness zones demonstrates Northern Michigan's temperature extremes compared to the southern half of the lower peninsula. Most Michigan fruit sites are in Zone 5 or 6,[179] making the Leelanau Peninsula and Grand Traverse Bay area uniquely conducive to cherries and other fruit trees.

Agriculture is limited by the climate and soil conditions compared to southern regions of the state. However, there are significant potato and dry bean farms in the east. Wine grapes, vegetables and cherries are produced in the west in the protected microclimates around Grand Traverse Bay. The Grand Traverse region has two of Michigan's four federally-recognized wine growing areas. The Grand Traverse Bay area is listed as one of the most endangered agricultural regions in the U.S. as its scenic land is highly sought after for vacation homes.

Heavy industry edit

Heavy industrial developments are sparse. The northeast corner has an industrial base.

Quarrying and mining edit

Cement-making and the mining of limestone and gypsum for Portland Cement are major exports of the area. Charlevoix's Medusa Cement Plant was bought by Cemex in the 1990s. Alpena is home to the Lafarge Company's holdings in the world's largest cement plant and is home to Besser Block Co. (Jesse M. Besser invented concrete block in 1904 and founded the Besser Block Co. in Alpena after making the concrete block making machine). USG Corporation, also known as United States Gypsum Corporation, operates several quarries, including one at Alabaster, and one in Rogers City. Rogers City is the locale of the world's largest limestone quarry, which is also used in steel making all along the Great Lakes.

Energy (oil and natural gas) edit

 
Antrim Shale reserves in northern Michigan

Northern Michigan has significant natural gas reserves along the Antrim shale formation in northern Michigan. By some estimates it is the 15th largest gas field in the nation.[180] Drilling activity peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s,[181] In 2014, Encana, the Canadian company who had been drilling in Northern Michigan, sold their mineral rights to Marathon Oil order to focus on more profitable operations elsewhere. For oil interest, Encana amassed rights for the Collingwood-Utica Shale (Michigan) between 2008 and 2010, mostly in Cheboygan, Kalkaska, Michigan, and Missaukee counties. The Collingwood layer is two miles below the surface and would require horizontal drilling.[182][183][184]

Manufacturing edit

Alpena has a hardboard manufacturing facility owned by Decorative Panels, International. Nearer to the Lake Michigan shore, Cadillac and Manistee have manufacturing and chemical industries. Morton Salt operates one of the largest salt plants in the world in Manistee. Also, the East Jordan Iron Works corporate offices, as well as the original foundry, are located in East Jordan.

Maritime edit

A small number of people work on the Great Lakes freighters. Adjacent to the Traverse City Cherry Capital Airport is a United States Coast Guard air station (CGAS), which is responsible for both maritime and land-based search and rescue operations in the northern Great Lakes region.

Military edit

Military presence in Northern Michigan is as follows:

Transportation edit

Transportation by air edit

Airports serving Northern Michigan include MBS International Airport near Freeland, Pellston Regional Airport,[185] Traverse City Cherry Capital Airport and Alpena County Regional Airport in the Lower peninsula. Depending on one's destination, Chippewa County International Airport in Sault Ste. Marie, in the eastern Upper peninsula might be a viable alternative. Grand Rapids and Bishop airport at Flint (although neither is within the area) also have scheduled service proximate to parts of the region. The Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport is now a public airport which gives 24-hour near-all-weather service for general aviation.

Transportation by water edit

Several ferries still operate in the region.

The largest bridge in Northern Michigan is the Mackinac Bridge connecting Northern Michigan to the Upper Peninsula. The second largest is the Zilwaukee Bridge.

Transportation by land edit

On land, Michigan is a unique travel environment. Consequently, drivers should be forewarned: travel distances should not be underestimated. Michigan's overall length is only 456 miles (734 km) and width 386 miles (621 km) – but because of the lakes those distances cannot be traveled directly. The distance from northwest to the southeast corner is 456 miles (734 km) "as the crow flies". However, travelers must go around the Great Lakes. For example, when traveling to the Upper Peninsula, it is well to realize that it is roughly 300 miles (480 km) from Detroit to the Mackinac Bridge, but it is another 300 miles (480 km) from St. Ignace to Ironwood.

Likewise direct routes are few and far between Interstate 75 (I-75) and M-115 do angle from the southeast to the northwest), but most roads are oriented either east–west or north–south (oriented with township lines set up under the Land Ordinance of 1785).

Transit edit

Automobile roads edit

 
US-131 (in red), US-23 (in orange), and I-75 (in blue) are three primary highways bringing downstate automobile traffic to Northern Michigan.
 
The SS Badger connects the Wisconsin and Michigan segments of US 10
 
The Grandview Parkway in Traverse City serves as a bypass of downtown, and, in total, carries four different highways along its length: US-31, M-22, M-37, & M-72

The primary means of transportation in Northern Michigan is by automobile.[citation needed] Northern Michigan is served by one Interstate, and a number of U.S. Highways and Michigan state trunklines.[189]

  •   I-75 runs northwest–southeast through the region between the Flint/Tri-Cities area and Mackinac Bridge at Mackinaw City, which leads on to the Upper Peninsula.
  •   US 10 enters Michigan after it crosses Lake Michigan from Manitowoc to Ludington. US 10 runs from Ludington through Baldwin and Reed City before it becomes a freeway west of US 127 near the junction with M-115. US 10 bypasses Midland and terminates at I-75 in Bay City.
  •   US 23 runs northward for about 200 miles (320 km) along (or parallel with) the Lake Huron shoreline as the Sunrise Side Coastal Highway from the Flint/Tri-Cities area.
  •   US 31 mainly parallels the Lake Michigan shore from the Ludington area north to Mackinaw City; near Traverse City, the highway cuts the base of the Leelanau Peninsula.
  •   US 127 ends at Grayling, connecting Northern Michigan with points south
  •   US 131 is a primary north–south highway that is a freeway from Manton southwards; north of the freeway terminus, the highway is mostly two lanes, connecting Kalkaska, Mancelona, and ending at US 31 in Petoskey.
  •   M-18 runs between Midland County, through Prudenville and Roscommon to M-72 in Crawford County.
  •   M-22 follows the Lake Michigan shoreline from Traverse City to Manistee and is a scenic drive along the Leelanau Peninsula and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
  •   M-27 runs along the old route of US 27 between Indian River and Cheboygan.
  •   M-32 runs between East Jordan and Alpena.
  •   M-33 runs between Alger (northwest of Standish) and Cheboygan.
  •   M-37 runs from Battle Creek via Grand Rapids to Traverse City and the Old Mission Peninsula.
  •   M-42 is a short route between Manton and M-66 north of Lake City.
  •   M-55 is a 150-mile (240 km) transpeninsular highway at the southern edge of the region from Manistee to Tawas City.
  •   M-65 runs northward from Au Gres (just north of Standish) to Rogers City,.
  •   M-66 traverses almost the entire north–south distance of the Lower Peninsula ending at Charlevoix.
  •   M-68 is an east–west state highway that runs from Alanson to Rogers City; it passes through Indian River, Afton, Tower, and Onaway.
  •   M-72 crosses the Lower Peninsula from Empire via Traverse City to Harrisville.
  •   M-75 is a connector between US-131 and Boyne City, and, despite its proximity to the highway, is not related to I-75.
  •   M-88 traverses Antrim County from Eastport to Mancelona via a handful of small towns.
  •   M-93 is a short highway connecting Camp Grayling, Hartwick Pines, and the city of Grayling in Crawford County.
  •   M-109 serves as a scenic loop off M-22 in the Sleeping Bear Dunes.
  •   M-113 runs across southern Grand Traverse County connecting M-37, US-131, and the village of Kingsley.
  •   M-115 is a "diagonal highway", taking a generally northwest–southeast direction from Clare to Frankfort.
  •   M-119 spurs off US-31 near Petoskey through Harbor Springs and along the Lake Michigan Coast as the Tunnel of Trees.
  •   M-137 is a short highway running from US-31 to Interlochen Center for the Arts. The highway has become famous among students.
  •   M-204 cuts across Leelanau County from Leland to Suttons Bay.
  •   M-212 is the shortest signed highway in the state, connecting Aloha State Park to M-33 south of Cheboygan.

Past railroads edit

The Northern Lower Peninsula was home to many different railroads during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One of these lines was the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railroad, later known as the Detroit and Mackinac Railway. The railroad had a main line along the Lake Huron shore and branch lines connecting to logging camps and gravel quarries. The railroad was a part owner of the SS Chief Wawatam, a rail car ferry that crossed the Straits of Mackinac. Running down the center of the Northern Lower Peninsula was the Michigan Central Railroad, which connected Mackinaw City with Bay City, Detroit, Lansing, and beyond. This line later became the New York Central and was sold to the Detroit and Mackinac Railway in 1976.[190] Several other railroads have existed in Alpena's history.[191]

On the west side of the peninsula, the Chicago and West Michigan Railway (later the Pere Marquette Railway) and several commercial cruise lines were early in generating traffic to Northern Michigan destinations. The Pere Marquette Railway operated rail car ferries across Lake Michigan out of Ludington. The most known ferry is the SS Badger which is still in use today for automobiles and passengers.

The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad provided rail service between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Mackinaw City. It was later bought out by the Pennsylvania Railroad. It served resort towns such as Traverse City, Petoskey, and Cadillac. In 1975 the line was bought by the Michigan Department of Transportation and the Michigan Northern Railway was contracted to operate. By 1984 much of the railroad was abandoned and operations were handed over to the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway.

The Ann Arbor was a railroad stretching from Toledo, Ohio, to Elberta, Michigan, where it operated a rail car ferry until 1982. The ferry serviced the cities of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Menominee, Michigan, and Manistique, Michigan. The Ann Arbor became a part of Conrail and then was later divided up between the Michigan Northern Railway and the Michigan Interstate Railway Company. The remaining portions of the line were absorbed into the state owned lines operated by the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway.[192]

Present railroads edit

Currently, Northern Michigan's railroad system is a skeleton of its former self. After the Chief Wawatam stopped running in 1984, rail lines serving the Straits of Mackinac were soon abandoned. In years past, four different railroads served Mackinaw City and St. Ignace, and now none are left.

The remainder of the former Detroit and Mackinac Railway is now the Lake State Railway. It operates a line from Bay City to Pinconning where it then branches northeast to Alpena and northwest to Gaylord.

Portions of the former Pere Marquette Railway, Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, and the Ann Arbor Railroad became the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway. The main line of this railway runs from Ann Arbor north to Petoskey, with branch lines to Yuma and Traverse City. The railroad was renamed the Great Lakes Central Railroad. There have been discussions of reviving passenger service along this line.[citation needed]

Flora and fauna edit

Common plants edit

 
Extent of the Laurentian Mixed Forest nearly coincides with Northern Michigan

Northern Michigan has many tree types including maple, birch, oak, ash, white cedar, aspen, pine, and beech. Ferns, milkweed, Queen Anne's lace, and chicory grow in the open fields and along roadsides. Forest plants include wild leeks, morel mushrooms, and trilliums. Marram grass grows on beaches. Several mosses cover the land.

Common mammals edit

Common mammals in Northern Michigan include white-tailed deer, fox, raccoons, porcupines, and rabbits. black bear, elk, coyote, bobcat, wolves, and mountain lions are also present. Although not common, the presence of cougars has been persistently reported over many years.[193][194][195] Fish include whitefish, yellow perch, trout, bass, northern pike, walleye, muskie, and sunfish.

Common birds edit

Common birds are ducks, seagulls, wild turkey, great blue herons, northern cardinals, blue jays, black-capped chickadees, hummingbirds, Baltimore oriole, and ruffed grouse. Canada geese may be seen flying over head in spring and fall. Less well known birds that are unique in Michigan to the Northern Lower Peninsula are spruce grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, red-throated loon, Swainson's hawk, and the boreal owl.[196][197]

The Au Sable State Forest is a state forest in the north-central Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Much of the forest is used for wildlife game management and the fostering of endangered and rare species, such as the Kirtland's warbler – there are regular controlled burns to maintain its habitat. The Kirtland's warbler has its habitat in an increasing part of the area.[198] There is a Kirtland's Warbler Festival, which is sponsored in part by Kirtland Community College.[199]

The American Bird Conservancy and the National Audubon Society have designated several locations as internationally Important Bird Areas.[200]

Common insects edit

Insect populations are similar to those found elsewhere in the midwestern United States. ladybugs, crickets, dragonflies, mosquitoes, ants, house flies, and grasshoppers are common, as is the Western conifer seed bug, and several kinds of butterflies and moths (for example, monarch butterflies and tomato worm moths). Notable deviations in insect populations are a high population of June bugs during June as well as a scarcity of lightning bugs because of the lower average temperatures year round and especially in the summer.

Northern Michigan is home to Michigan's most endangered species and one of the most endangered species in the world: the Hungerford's crawling water beetle. The species lives in only five locations in the world, four of which are in Northern Michigan (one is in Bruce County, Ontario). Indeed, the only stable population of the rare beetle occurs along a two and a half mile stretch of the East Branch of the Maple River in Emmet County, Michigan.

Common reptiles edit

There are no fatally venomous snakes native to Northern Michigan. The venomous Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake lives in Michigan, but it is not common, particularly in Northern Michigan. In any event, its non-fatal bite may make an adult sick, but it should be medically treated without delay.

Snakes present include the eastern hog-nosed snake, brown snake, common garter snake, eastern milk snake and the northern ribbon snake. The only common reptiles and amphibians are various pond frogs, toads, salamanders, and small turtles.

State Forests and conservation areas edit

The state forests in the U.S. state of Michigan are managed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Forest, Mineral and Fire Management unit. It is the largest state forest system in the nation at 3,900,000 acres (16,000 km2). See List of Michigan state forests. The Northern lower peninsula includes three forests:

  • Mackinaw State Forest
    • Atlanta FMU (Alpena, northeast Cheboygan, most of Montmorency, and most of Presque Isle counties)
    • Gaylord FMU (Antrim, Charlevoix, most of Cheboygan, Emmet, and most of Otsego counties)
    • Pigeon River Country FMU (southeast Cheboygan, northwest Montmorency, northeast Otsego, and southwest Presque Isle counties)
  • Pere Marquette State Forest
    • Cadillac FMU (Lake, Mason, Mecosta, Missaukee, Newaygo, Oceana, Osceola, and Wexford counties)
    • Traverse City FMU (Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Kalkaska, Manistee counties)
  • Au Sable State Forest
    • Gladwin FMU (Arenac, Bay, Clare, Gladwin, southern Iosco, Isabella, and Midland counties)
    • Grayling FMU (Alcona, Crawford, Oscoda, and northern Iosco counties)
    • Roscommon FMU (Ogemaw and Roscommon counties)

In addition, large portions of this area are covered by the Manistee National Forest and the Huron National Forest. In the former, a unique environment is present at the Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness. This relatively small area of 3,450 acres (14.0 km2), on Lake Michigan's east shore, is one of few wilderness areas in the U.S. with an extensive lake shore dunes ecosystem. The dunes are 3500 to 4000 years old, and rise to nearly 140 feet (43 m) higher than the lake. The Nordhouse Dunes are interspersed with woody vegetation such as jack pine, juniper and hemlock. Many small water holes and marshes dot the landscape, and dune grass covers some of the dunes. The wide and sandy beach is ideal for walks and sunset viewing.

Eight islands off the Lakes Michigan and Huron coasts – Charlevoix and Alpena counties, respectively – are part of the Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge.

Notable people edit

See the "Notable people" sections in the various settlement articles.

Media edit

Northern Michigan is in the Designated Market Areas of "Traverse City-Cadillac" (116), "Alpena" (208), and some portions of "Flint-Saginaw-Bay City" (66).

Newspapers edit

Main article: List of newspapers in Michigan

Daily editions of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News are also available throughout the area with the Bay City Times and Saginaw News available in the east and The Grand Rapids Press available in the west.

Magazines edit

  • Traverse is published monthly with a focus on regional interests.

Radio edit

Main article: List of radio stations in Michigan

FM edit

// designates a simulcast.

  • 88.5 WIAB Mackinaw City – //88.7 WIAA
  • 88.5 WSFP Rust Twp/Alpena – Smile FM
  • 88.7 WIAA Interlochen – Classical "IPR Music Radio"
  • 89.3 WTLI Bear Creek Twp. (Petoskey) – Contemporary Christian; Smile FM (//88.1 WLGH Lansing)
  • 89.7 WJOJ Harrisville/Alpena – Smile FM
  • 89.9 WLJN Traverse City – Religious
  • 90.5 WPHN Gaylord – Adult Contemporary Christian "The Promise FM"; also airs on 99.7 FM translator in Petoskey
  • 90.7 WNMC Traverse City – Variety, College
  • 90.9 WTCK Charlevoix – Catholic; also airs on translators 92.1 FM Gaylord/95.3 FM Mackinaw City
  • 90.9 WMSD Rose Township (Ogemaw County) – Religious
  • 91.1 WOLW Cadillac – //90.5 WPHN
  • 91.3 WJOG Good Hart/Petoskey – Smile FM
  • 91.3 WZHN East Tawas – //90.5 WPHN
  • 91.5 WICA Traverse City – NPR, Public News/Talk
  • 91.7 WCML Alpena – Public Music Variety/News/Talk "CMU Public Radio"
  • 92.1 WTWS Houghton Lake – Hot Country "92-1 The Twister"
  • 92.3 WBNZ Beulah – currently silent
  • 92.5 WFDX Atlanta – Silent
  • 92.9 WJZQ Cadillac/Traverse City – Contemporary Hits "Z-93"
  • 93.5 WBCM Boyne City – //103.5 WTCM
  • 93.7 WKAD Harrietta/Cadillac – Oldies "Oldies 93.7"
  • 93.9 WAVC Mio – //Talk radio "The Patriot"
  • 94.3 WCMV-FM Leland/Traverse City – Silent
  • 94.5 WSBX Mackinaw City – Classic Rock "94.5 WSBX"
  • 94.9 WKJZ Hillman/Alpena – //103.3 WQLB; also airs on 98.1 FM translator in Alpena proper
  • 95.5 WGFE Glen Arbor – Modern Rock "The Zone"
  • 95.7 WCMB-FM Oscoda – CMU Public Radio
  • 96.1 WHNN Bay City – Classic Hits; listenable in the West Branch and Tawas areas
  • 96.3 WLXT Petoskey – Adult Contemporary "Lite 96"
  • 96.7 WLXV Cadillac – Hot Adult Contemporary "Mix 96"
  • 96.7 WRGZ Rogers City – //99.3 WATZ
  • 96.9 WWCM Standish – CMU Public Radio
  • 97.3 WDEE-FM Reed City/Big Rapids – Oldies "Sunny 97.3"
  • 97.5 WKLT Kalkaska/Traverse City – Classic Rock "KLT the Rock Station"
  • 97.7 WMLQ Manistee – Soft Adult Contemporary/EZ Listening "97 Coast-FM"
  • 97.7 WMRX-FM Beaverton – Oldies/Adult Standards "Timeless Favourites"
  • 98.1 WGFN Glen Arbor/Traverse City – Classic Rock "The Bear"
  • 98.5 WUPS Harrison/Mount Pleasant – Classic Hits "98.5 UPS"
  • 98.9 WKLZ Petoskey – //WKLT 97.5
  • 99.3 WATZ Alpena – Country
  • 99.3 WLLS Beulah – Silent
  • 99.9 WHAK-FM Rogers City – Oldies "99-9 The Wave"
  • 100.3 WGRY Grayling – Country "Y100"
  • 100.7 WWTH Oscoda – Country "Thunder Country" also airs on 94.1 FM translator in Alpena
  • 100.9 WICV East Jordan/Charlevoix – //88.7 WIAA
  • 101.1 WQON Roscommon/Grayling – Adult Contemporary "Decades 101"
  • 101.5 WMJZ Gaylord – Adult Hits "Eagle 101.5"
  • 101.5 WMTE Manistee – Classic Hits "Kool 101.5"
  • 101.9 WLDR Traverse City – Country "Sunny Country"
  • 102.1 WLEW Bad Axe – Adult Hits; listenable on the Lake Huron west shore up to Harrisville.
  • 102.7 WMOM Ludington/Pentwater – Top 40 "Always Listen to your Mom"
  • 102.9 WMKC St. Ignace – Country "102.9 Big Country Hits"
  • 103.3 WQLB Tawas City – Classic Hits "Hits FM"
  • 103.5 WTCM-FM Traverse City – Country "Today's Country Music"
  • 103.9 WCMW Harbor Springs – CMU Public Radio
  • 104.3 WRDS-LP Roscommon – Southern Gospel "The Lighthouse"
  • 104.7 WKJC Tawas City – Country
  • 104.9 WAIR Lake City/Cadillac – Smile FM
  • 105.1 WGFM Cheboygan – //98.1 WGFN
  • 105.5 WSJR Honor/Traverse City – //106.7 WSRT
  • 105.5 WBMI West Branch – Classic Country
  • 105.7 WZTK Alpena – news, talk and sports
  • 105.9 WKHQ Charlevoix – Contemporary Hits "106 KHQ"
  • 106.1 WTZM Tawas City – //90.5 WPHN
  • 106.3 WWMN Ludington – Hot Adult Contemporary "The Lakeshore's Hit Music Station"
  • 106.7 WSRT Gaylord – Adult Contemporary "106.7 You FM" also airs on 95.3 FM translator in Petoskey area
  • 107.1 WCKC Cadillac – //98.1 WGFN
  • 107.5 WCCW Traverse City – Oldies "Oldies 107.5"
  • 107.7 WHSB Alpena – Hot Adult Contemporary "107-7 The Bay"
  • 107.9 WCZW Charlevoix/Petoskey – //107.5 WCCW

AM edit

  • WTCM 580 50000 watt day, 1100 night, directional day and night, Talk, Traverse City
  • WARD 750 1000 watt day, 330 night, directional day and night, Country (with WLDR-FM 101.9), Petoskey
  • WMMI 830 1000 day only, talk, Shepherd
  • WIDG 940 5000 watt day, 4 watt night, Catholic Talk, St. Ignace
  • WHAK 960 5000 watt day, 137 night, Country (simulcasting WWTH FM Oscoda), Rogers City – simulcast of WWTH 100.7 FM
  • WJML 1110 10000 watt day, 10 night, directional day and night, Talk, Petoskey
  • WJNL 1210 50000 watt day, 2500 critical hours, day only, Talk (with WJML-AM), Kingsley
  • WMQU 1230 1000 watt day and night, Adult Standards, Grayling
  • WATT 1240 1000 watt day and night, Talk, Cadillac
  • WCBY 1240 1000 watt day and night, Classic Country "Big Country Gold"
  • WMKT 1270 27000 watt day, 5000 night, directional night, Talk, Charlevoix
  • WMBN 1340 1000 watt day and night, Adult Standards, Petoskey
  • WLJW 1370 5000 watt day, 1000 night, directional day and night, Christian Talk, Cadillac
  • WLJN 1400 1000 watt day and night, Christian, Traverse City
  • WIOS 1480 1000 watt day only, directional, Adult Standards, Tawas City "The Bay's Best"

Broadcast television edit

The following stations serve parts of Northern Michigan as their viewing area, and also some areas outside of the region.

  • WPBN (7)—NBC, Traverse City/Cadillac
    • WTOM (4)—Cheboygan
  • WWTV (9)—CBS, Cadillac
  • WCMU (14)—PBS, Mount Pleasant
    • WCML (6)—Alpena
    • WCMW (21)—Manistee
    • WCMV (27)—Cadillac
    • W46AD (46)—Traverse City
    • W69AV (69)—Leland
  • WBKB (11)—CBS, Alpena
  • WGTU (29)—ABC, Traverse City
    • WGTQ (8)—Sault Ste. Marie
  • WFQX (33)—FOX, Cadillac
    • WFUP (45)—Vanderbilt
  • WXII-LD (12)—MyNetworkTV, Traverse City/Cedar

See also edit

Notes edit

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Further reading edit

  • Bogue, Margaret (1985). Around the Shores of Lake Michigan: A Guide to Historic Sites. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-10004-9.
  • Cappel, Constance, ed. (2006). Odawa Language and Legends: Andrew J. Blackbird and Raymond Kiogima. Philadelphia: Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-59926-920-7.[self-published source]
  • —— (2007). The Smallpox Genocide of the Odawa Tribe at L'Arbre Croche, 1763: The History of a Native American People. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-5220-6.
  • McRae, Shannon (2003). Manistee County. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-4124-2.
  • Ruchhoft, Robert H. (1991). Exploring North Manitou, South Manitou, High and Garden Islands of the Lake Michigan Archipelago'. Cincinnati, OH: Pucelle Press. ISBN 978-0-940029-02-6.
  • Russell, Curran N .; Baer, Dona Degen (1954). The Lumberman's Legacy. Manistee, MI: Manistee County Historical Society. OCLC 1213029.
  • Wood, Mable C.; Ingells, Douglas J. (1962). Scooterville, U.S.A. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. OCLC 2556377.

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northern, michigan, this, article, about, region, michigan, lower, peninsula, northernmost, peninsula, michigan, upper, peninsula, michigan, university, university, university, athletic, program, wildcats, also, known, northern, lower, michigan, known, colloqu. This article is about the region of Michigan s Lower Peninsula For the northernmost peninsula of Michigan see Upper Peninsula of Michigan For the university see Northern Michigan University For the university s athletic program see Northern Michigan Wildcats Northern Michigan also known as Northern Lower Michigan known colloquially to residents of more southerly parts of the state and summer residents from cities such as Detroit as Up North is a region of the U S state of Michigan A popular tourist destination it is home to several small to medium sized cities extensive state and national forests lakes and rivers and a large portion of Great Lakes shoreline The region has a significant seasonal population much like other regions that depend on tourism as their main industry Northern Lower Michigan is distinct from the more northerly Upper Peninsula and Isle Royale which are also located in northern Michigan In the northernmost 21 counties in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan the total population of the region is 506 658 people A Northern Michigan Northern Lower MichiganLower Peninsula of MichiganNorthern Michigan is highlighted in light green CountryUnited StatesStateMichiganPopulation Total506 658Time zoneEastern UTC 5 4 Contents 1 Geography 1 1 Boundary description 1 2 Definition excludes the Upper Peninsula 1 3 Other definitions of Northern Michigan 1 4 Topography climate and soil 1 5 Weather 1 6 Population 2 Counties 3 Cities villages and unincorporated communities 3 1 Indian reservations 4 Tourism 4 1 Summer destinations 4 2 Non summer destinations 4 3 Other tourist attractions 4 4 Festivals 5 History 5 1 Pre colonial era itinerant Native American tribes 5 2 French and English colonial eras fur trade and exploration based at the Straits 5 2 1 Initial colonial influence on Natives French exploration and Beaver Wars 5 2 2 Jesuit Mission at St Ignace 1671 1696 5 2 3 1680s Fortification Fort de Buade at St Ignace 5 2 4 1690s Cadillac at Fort de Buade St Ignace Fort and Mission later abandoned 5 2 5 Early 1700s Fort Michilimackinac established as a New France outpost 5 2 6 1760s Beginning of the British era 5 3 1780s to 1830s United States territorial acquisition continued fur trade and territorial disputes 5 4 Early coastal settlements in the 1830s through 1850s 5 4 1 Decline of Mackinaw and fur trade 5 4 2 Increased ship traffic along Northern Michigan coasts 5 4 3 Indian missions 5 4 4 Fishing settlements 5 4 5 Lighthouses 5 4 6 Tension between White settlement and Native American land claims 5 5 1860s to 1890s Homestead Act settlements and industrial developments 5 5 1 Increased settlement and establishment of port cities 5 5 2 1870s Arrival of rail infrastructure rampant lumbering and fishing and economic slowdown 5 5 3 1880s Emergence of resort and vacation industry 5 5 4 Sport fishing 5 5 5 Industrial growth and diversification 5 6 20th century resort era 5 6 1 Early resorts 5 6 2 State parks 5 6 3 Ski resorts 5 6 4 Decline of rail 6 Education 7 Economy 7 1 Vacation and tourism 7 2 Agriculture 7 3 Heavy industry 7 3 1 Quarrying and mining 7 3 2 Energy oil and natural gas 7 3 3 Manufacturing 7 4 Maritime 7 5 Military 8 Transportation 8 1 Transportation by air 8 2 Transportation by water 8 3 Transportation by land 8 3 1 Transit 8 3 2 Automobile roads 8 3 3 Past railroads 8 3 4 Present railroads 9 Flora and fauna 9 1 Common plants 9 2 Common mammals 9 3 Common birds 9 4 Common insects 9 5 Common reptiles 9 6 State Forests and conservation areas 10 Notable people 11 Media 11 1 Newspapers 11 2 Magazines 11 3 Radio 11 3 1 FM 11 3 2 AM 11 4 Broadcast television 12 See also 13 Notes 14 References 14 1 Further reading 15 External linksGeography editSee also Protected areas of Michigan and Michigan Geography Boundary description edit nbsp Northern Michigan is at the northern tip of Michigan s Lower Peninsula Residents of Northern Michigan generally consider it to lie between Grayling and the Mackinac Bridge The southern boundary of the region is not precisely defined Some residents in the southern part of the state consider its southern limit to be just north of Flint Port Huron Grand Rapids or Mount Pleasant though those in Northern Michigan refer to this are as Mid Michigan Others may restrict it to the area north of Bay City and Clare using US Highway 10 as a reference point which roughly marks the fingers of the mitten like shape of the Lower Peninsula 1 The topic of where Up North begins is often debated among Michiganders with there being no definitive answer on the subject 2 The 45th parallel runs across Northern Michigan Signs in the Lower Peninsula that mark that line are at Mission Point Light 3 just north of Traverse City Suttons Bay Cairn Highway in Kewadin 4 Alba Michigan on U S 131 Highway approximately two miles north of County Road 42 with signs on both sides of the highway Gaylord 5 Atlanta and Alpena 6 These are six of 29 places in the U S A where such signs or monuments are known to exist One other such sign is in Menominee Michigan in the Upper Peninsula 7 Definition excludes the Upper Peninsula edit Across the Straits of Mackinac to the north west and northeast lies the Upper Peninsula of Michigan the U P Despite its geographic location as the most northerly part of Michigan the Upper Peninsula is not usually included in the definition of Northern Michigan although Northern Michigan University is located in the U P city of Marquette and is instead regarded by Michigan residents as a distinct region of the state although residents of the Upper Peninsula often say that Northern Michigan is not in the Lower Peninsula They insist the region must only be referred to as Northern Lower Michigan and this can sometimes become a topic of contention between people who are from different Peninsulas citation needed The two regions are connected by the 5 mile long Mackinac Bridge 8 Those living South of the bridge are known as trolls while those living above the bridge are yoopers Other definitions of Northern Michigan edit All of the northern Lower Peninsula north of a line from Manistee County on the west to Iosco County on the east the second orange tier up on the map is considered to be part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord 9 Topography climate and soil edit The geographical theme of this region is shaped by rolling hills Great Lakes shorelines including coastal dunes on the west coast large inland lakes numerous rivers and large forests A tension zone is identified running from Muskegon to Saginaw Bay marked by a change in soil type and common tree species 10 North of the line the historic presettlement forests were beech and sugar maple mixed with hemlock white pine and yellow birch which only grew on moist soils further south Southern Michigan forests were primarily deciduous with oaks red maple shagbark hickory basswood and cottonwood which are uncommon further north Northern Michigan soils tend to be coarser and the growing season is shorter with a cooler climate Lake effect weather brings significant snowfalls to snow belt areas of Northern Michigan Glaciers shaped the area creating a unique regional ecosystem A large portion of the area is the so called Grayling outwash plain which consists of broad outwash plain including sandy ice disintegration ridges jack pine barrens some white pine red pine forest and northern hardwood forest Large lakes were created by glacial action 11 Weather edit The region has the four seasons in their extremes with sometimes hot and humid summer days although mild in comparison to some parts of the south to subzero days in winter With the expansive hardwood forest in Northern Michigan fall color tourists are found throughout the area in early to mid autumn 12 When the spring rains come many roads and bridges become impassable due to flooding or muddy to the point a four wheel drive cannot pass Snowfall varies throughout the region due to lake effect snow from the prevailing westerly winds off of Lake Michigan average yearly snow ranges from 141 4 inches or 3 59 metres in Gaylord to 52 4 inches or 1 33 metres in Harrisville 13 Both the high and low temperature records for all of Michigan are held by communities in Northern Lower Michigan The high is 112 F or 44 4 C set in Mio on July 13 1936 and the low is 51 F or 46 1 C set in Vanderbilt on February 9 1934 14 Population edit nbsp View of downtown Traverse City the largest city in Northern Michigan nbsp Downtown Cadillac the second largest city in Northern Michigan nbsp Alpena City Hall in Alpena the third largest city in the region nbsp Downtown Ludington the fourth largest city nbsp View of Manistee the fifth largest city nbsp Downtown Petoskey the sixth largest city In the northernmost 21 counties in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan the total population of the region is 506 658 people A The most populated city in Northern Michigan is Traverse City with over 15 thousand inhabitants Grand Traverse County is the largest county in Northern Michigan by population at just under 100 000 Grand Traverse County also contains the three most populous municipalities in Northern Michigan Garfield Township Traverse City which partially extends into Leelanau County and East Bay Township Cities villages and CDPs in Northern Michigan with a population above 1 000 in 2020 Municipality 2020 Population Area sq mi Area km2 County ies Traverse City 15 678 8 66 22 43 Grand Traverse LeelanauCadillac 10 371 8 91 23 09 WexfordAlpena 10 197 9 23 23 9 AlpenaLudington 8 076 3 60 9 34 MasonManistee 6 259 4 53 11 73 ManisteePetoskey 5 877 5 34 13 84 EmmetHoughton Lake 5 294 7 49 19 4 RoscommonCheboygan 4 876 6 93 17 94 CheboyganGaylord 4 286 5 00 12 95 OtsegoBoyne City 3 816 5 34 13 84 CharlevoixClare 3 254 3 83 9 92 Clare IsabellaSkidway Lake 3 082 11 79 30 52 OgemawGladwin 3 069 2 90 7 51 GladwinRogers City 2 850 8 36 21 65 Presque IsleSt Helen 2 735 5 92 15 3 RoscommonEast Tawas 2 663 3 27 8 48 IoscoReed City 2 490 2 13 5 53 OsceolaWest Branch 2 351 1 53 3 97 OgemawCharlevoix 2 348 2 05 5 30 CharlevoixEast Jordan 2 239 3 92 10 15 CharlevoixHarrison 2 150 4 03 10 43 ClareKalkaska 2 132 3 21 8 31 KalkaskaIndian River 1 950 20 2 52 4 CheboyganTawas City 1 834 2 13 5 51 IoscoGrayling 1 867 2 08 5 39 CrawfordEvart 1 742 2 53 6 55 OsceolaMio 1 690 8 98 23 3 OscodaPrudenville 1 643 3 62 9 4 RoscommonElk Rapids 1 642 2 01 5 20 AntrimGreilickville 1 634 7 11 18 41 LeelanauStandish 1 458 2 18 5 64 ArenacAu Sable 1 453 2 13 5 52 IoscoKingsley 1 431 1 22 3 17 Grand TraverseRapid City 1 357 5 53 14 31 KalkaskaMancelona 1 344 1 00 2 60 AntrimHarbor Springs 1 274 1 29 3 35 EmmetManton 1 258 1 61 4 18 WexfordFrankfort 1 252 1 58 4 10 BenzieScottville 1 214 1 49 3 86 MasonBeaverton 1 145 1 33 3 44 GladwinChums Corner 1 065 2 79 2 66 Grand TraverseBellaire 1 053 1 99 5 16 AntrimLakes of the North 1 044 16 73 43 44 AntrimThe area was populated by many different ethnicities including groups from New England Maine Vermont New York Ireland Germany and Poland The Odawa nation is located in Emmet County Little Traverse Band of Odawa Indians Other Native American reservations exist at Mount Pleasant and on the Leelanau Peninsula Counties edit nbsp 21 counties in Northern Michigan There are 21 counties traditionally associated with Northern Michigan County 2020 Population Land Area sq mi Land Area km2 SeatAlcona County 10 167 675 1 750 HarrisvilleAlpena County 28 907 572 1 480 AlpenaAntrim County 23 431 476 1 230 BellaireBenzie County 17 970 320 800 BeulahCharlevoix County 25 597 416 1 080 CharlevoixCheboygan County 26 152 715 1 850 CheboyganCrawford County 23 988 556 1440 GraylingEmmet County 34 112 467 1 210 PetoskeyGrand Traverse County 95 238 464 1 200 Traverse CityIosco County 25 237 549 1 420 Tawas CityLeelanau County 22 301 347 900 Suttons BayKalkaska County 17 939 560 1 500 KalkaskaManistee County 25 032 542 1 400 ManisteeMissaukee County 15 052 565 1 460 Lake CityMontmorency County 9 153 547 1 420 AtlantaOgemaw County 20 770 563 1 460 West BranchOscoda County 8 219 566 1 470 MioOtsego County 25 091 514 1 330 GaylordPresque Isle County 12 982 659 1 710 Rogers CityRoscommon County 23 459 520 1 300 RoscommonWexford County 33 673 565 1 460 CadillacIn addition to these 21 six more counties to the south are also occasionally referred to as Northern Michigan but are generally considered to be part of other regions This counties are County 2020 Population Land Area sq mi Land Area km2 SeatArenac County 15 002 363 1 760 StandishClare County 30 856 564 1 460 HarrisonGladwin County 25 386 502 1 300 GladwinLake County 12 096 567 1 470 BaldwinMason County 29 052 495 1 280 LudingtonOsceola County 22 891 566 1 470 Reed CityCities villages and unincorporated communities editBelow is a list of cities villages and unincorporated communities in northern Michigan Acme Grand Traverse Afton Cheboygan Albert Montmorency Albert Emmet Aloha Cheboygan Alpena Alpena Arlene Missaukee Atlanta Montmorency Au Gres Arenac Barton City Alcona Bates Grand Traverse Beaver Island Charlevoix Beaverton Gladwin Bear Lake Manistee Belknap Presque Isle Benzonia Benzie Beulah Benzie Black River Alcona Boon Boyne City Charlevoix Boyne Falls Charlevoix Briley Montmorency Brookside Grand Traverse Buckley Wexford Cadillac Wexford Cedar Leelanau Central Lake Antrim Charlevoix Charlevoix Cheboygan Cheboygan Custer Mason Denton Roscommon East Jordan Charlevoix East Tawas Iosco Elberta Benzie Elk Rapids Antrim Empire Leelanau Fairview Oscoda Falmouth Missaukee Fife Lake Grand Traverse Fountain Mason Frankfort Benzie Free Soil Michigan Mason Gaylord Otsego Gladwin Gladwin Glennie Alcona Glen Arbor Leelanau Glen Haven Leelanau Goodar Ogemaw Good Harbor Leelanau Grawn Grand Traverse Grayling Crawford Greenbush Alcona Greilickville Gustin Alcona Hale Iosco Hannah Grand Traverse Harbor Springs Emmet Harrietta Harrisville Alcona Hawks Presque Isle Herron Alpena Higgins Lake Roscommon Hillman Alpena Montmorency Honor Benzie Houghton Lake Roscommon Hubbard Lake Alcona Indian River Cheboygan Interlochen Grand Traverse Kalkaska Kalkaska Kaleva Manistee Karlin Grand Traverse Kingsley Grand Traverse Lachine Alpena Lake Ann Benzie Lake City Missaukee Lake Leelanau Leelanau Leland Lewiston Montmorency Lincoln Alcona Long Rapids Alpena Lost Lake Woods Alcona Ludington Mason Lupton Ogemaw Mackinac Island Mackinac Mackinaw City Cheboygan Emmet Manistee Manistee Manton Wexford Mapleton Grand Traverse Maple City Leelanau Maple Ridge Arenac Mayfield Grand Traverse McBain Missaukee Mesick Wexford Metz Presque Isle Millersburg Presque Isle Mikado Alcona Mio Oscoda Moltke Presque Isle Monroe Center Grand Traverse Mullett Lake Cheboygan National City Iosco Northport Leelanau Ocqueoc Presque Isle Ogdensburg Grand Traverse Old Mission Grand Traverse Omena Leelanau Omer Arenac Onaway Presque Isle Onekama Manistee Oscoda Iosco Ossineke Alpena Palaestrum Grand Traverse Pellston Emmet Petoskey Emmet Posen Presque Isle Prescott Ogemaw Presque Isle Presque Isle Prudenville Roscommon Rapid City Kalkaska Richfield Roscommon Rogers City Presque Isle Roscommon Roscommon Rose City Ogemaw Rust Montmorency St Helen Roscommon Scottville Mason South Boardman Kalkaska South Branch Iosco Spruce Alcona Standish Arenac Sterling Arenac Summit City Grand Traverse Tawas City Iosco Thompsonville Benzie Topinabee Cheboygan Tower Cheboygan Traverse City Grand Traverse Leelanau Turner Arenac Twining Arenac Vanderbilt Otsego Walhalla Mason Walton Grand Traverse Wexford West Branch Ogemaw Whittemore Iosco Wilber Iosco Williamsburg Grand Traverse Wolverine Cheboygan Yuba Grand Traverse Indian reservations edit Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians occupies at least 13 scattered reservation areas within Emmet County including portions within the city of Petoskey and the townships of Bear Creek Bliss Center Little Traverse McKinley Readmond Resort Wawatam and West Traverse 15 Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa IndiansTourism edit nbsp Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore nbsp Ocqueoc Falls nbsp Torch LakeSummer destinations edit See also List of National Historic Landmarks in Michigan Boating golf and camping are leading activities Sailing kayaking 16 canoeing birding bicycling 17 18 19 horse back riding motorcycling and off roading are important avocations The forest activities are available everywhere There are a great many Michigan state parks and other protected areas which make these truly a pleasant peninsula These would include the Huron National Forest and the Manistee National Forest plus the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore a 35 mile stretch of eastern Lake Michigan dunes 20 and the Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness Many city dwellers from downstate and nearby areas notably Chicago have summer vacation homes in Northern Michigan The largest resort cities in Northern Michigan are in the west on Lake Michigan with its sandy beaches and warm bays Popular tourist towns in Northern Michigan include Northport Traverse City Elk Rapids Charlevoix Boyne City Petoskey Manistee Ludington Bear Lake Empire Frankfort 21 Harbor Springs and Leland It should also be noted that there is a large wine district in the area along the Lake Michigan Shore At the top of the lower peninsula are Mackinaw City and Mackinac Island 22 which lies between the Lower and Upper Peninsulas in the Straits of Mackinac Less well known and less developed is the northeastern lower peninsula along the Lake Huron shore It offers many great vacation spots particularly along the coast These are in order from south to north Standish Omer Au Gres Tawas City East Tawas Oscoda Greenbush Harrisville Alpena Presque Isle Rogers City Cheboygan and points in between Some consider these to be more up north than the relatively congested west coast Indeed the Detroit Free Press noted that the area between Oscoda and Ossineke included beaches that are overlooked and among the top ten in Michigan This would include the area around Harrisville and two state parks It was noted that Old fashioned lake vacations abound on this pretty stretch of Lake Huron 23 In between the two or three depending on how you count coasts there are a large number of inland cities and lakes Michigan has 11 037 lakes and a varied landscape that has many rivers Such places as Cadillac Kalkaska Grayling West Branch and Gaylord are also prized summer destinations for Michiganders and visitors from other states Among many others Houghton Lake Higgins Lake Torch Lake and Hubbard Lake are large inland lakes within the region The Michigan Shore to Shore Riding amp Hiking Trail 24 runs from Empire to Oscoda and points north and south It is a 240 mile 390 km interconnected system of trails The Great Lakes Circle Tour is a designated scenic road system connecting all of the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River 25 nbsp The Highlands at Harbor SpringsNon summer destinations edit Some of the downhill and Nordic skiing cross country resorts located in the Northern Lower include Boyne Mountain Boyne Highlands Otsego Club amp Resort since 1939 Crystal Mountain Resort Snow Snake Ski and Golf Nub s Nob Caberfae Peaks and Schuss Mountain Some of these also serve as summer golf resorts Frederic Michigan is a particularly noteworthy center for cross country skiing Fall activities include harvest festivals seasonal beer and wine events and fall color tours Hunting in Northern Michigan is a popular fall pastime There are seasons for bow hunting and a muzzle loader season as well as for using modern rifle season The opening day of deer season November 15 is a major day for some residents Some schools close November 15 due to low attendance as a result of the opening day of deer season In winter a variety of sports are enjoyed by the locals which also draw visitors to Northern Michigan Snowmobiling also called sledding is popular and with hundreds of miles of interconnected groomed trails cross the region Ice fishing is also popular Tip up Town on Houghton Lake is a major ice fishing snowmobiling and winter sports festival and is unique in that it is a village that assembles out on the frozen lake surface Higgins Lake also offers good ice fishing and has many snowmobiling cross country skiing and snowshoeing trails at the North Higgins Lake State Park Grayling and Gaylord and their environs are recognized for Nordic skiing Cadillac is reputed to be even more popular during the winter than it is in the summer Other tourist attractions edit Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Mackinac Bridge Boyne Mountain Fort Michilimackinac Many State ParksThe Lumberman s Monument honors lumberjacks that shaped the area exploiting the natural resource It is located on the River Road National Scenic Byway which runs parallel with the Au Sable River and is a designated National Scenic Byway for the 23 miles 37 km that go into Oscoda 26 The State of Michigan has designated Oscoda as the official home of Paul Bunyan due to the earliest documented publications in the Oscoda Press August 10 1906 by James MacGillivray later revised and published in The Detroit News in 1910 27 Hartwick Pines State Park is a 9 672 acre 39 14 km2 state park and logging museum located in Crawford County near Grayling and I 75 It is the third largest state park on Michigan s Lower Peninsula and the state s fifth biggest park overall The park contains an old growth forest of white pines and red pines that resembles the appearance of all of Northern Michigan prior to the logging era Also to be noted is Interlochen State Park which is the oldest state park and the other remaining stand of virgin Eastern White Pine in the Lower Peninsula The Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan is a community museum serving Alpena County and surrounding counties in the U S state of Michigan Alpena is a port city on Lake Huron The museum defines its role broadly to preserve protect and present history and culture closely connected with the heritage of Northern Michigan and the Great Lakes The museum includes a small publicly owned planetarium 28 The institution says Our mission is to collect preserve interpret and exhibit authentic articles and artifacts of art history and science to inspire curiosity foster community pride and cultivate personal legacy 29 There were more than 150 past and present lighthouses around Michigan s Great Lakes coasts including several in Northern Michigan They serve as functioning warnings to mariners but are also integral to the region s culture and history See the list of Michigan lighthouses for more information on individual lighthouses Festivals edit A number of annual festivals occur in Northern Michigan including Festival Location Remarks and sourcesAlpenFest and Alpenfest run walk Gaylord 30 31 Art on the Beach Oscoda 32 Arts and crafts shows around the state Various 33 Bass Festival Mancelona 34 35 Blissfest folk festival Bliss Township 36 37 Cadillac Chestnut Harvest Festival Cadillac 38 Held every year on the second Saturday of October 39 Cedar Polka Festival Cedar 40 Celebration Days at Tawas Point State Park East Tawas Michigan 41 Charlevoix Waterfront Art Fair Charlevoix 42 2nd weekend in August citation needed Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac Lake Michigan 43 Dulcimer FunFest Evart 44 citation needed Firemen s Memorial Festival Roscommon 45 citation needed Freedom Festival East Jordan 46 citation needed Great Lakes Bioneers Conference 47 citation needed Great Lakes Lighthouse Festival Alpena 48 citation needed According to Tim Harrison Editor in Chief and publisher of Lighthouse Digest magazine and President of American Lighthouse Foundation There is no other festival like it in the United States 49 Harrisville Arts amp Crafts Show aka Harmony Weekend 50 Harrisville Labor Day weekend citation needed Hoxeyville Music Festival South Branch Township Wexford County Michigan 51 citation needed Kirtland Warbler Festival Roscommon County Michigan 52 Leland Wine amp Food Festival Northport 53 citation needed Mackinac Island Fudge Festival Mackinac Island 54 citation needed Mackinac Island Lilac Festival Mackinac Island 55 citation needed Mackinac Island Music Festival Mackinac Island 56 citation needed Michigan Brown Trout Festival Alpena 57 58 59 60 Mushroom Festival Mesick 61 citation needed National Cherry Festival Traverse City 62 National Coho Salmon Festival Honor 63 citation needed National Forest Festival Manistee 64 National Morel Mushroom Festival Boyne City 65 citation needed National Trout Festival Kalkaska 66 citation needed End of AprilNautical Festival Rogers City 67 citation needed North American Snowmobile Festival Cadillac 68 Northport s Harbor Day and July 4 Celebration Northport citation needed Paul Bunyan Festival amp Great Lakes Chainsaw Carving Competition Oscoda 32 Petoskey Festival on the Bay Petoskey 69 citation needed Polish Festival Boyne Falls 70 citation needed Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race Lake Huron Ends on Mackinac Island 71 Posen Potato Festival Posen 72 Salmon Slam Northport Michigan citation needed Scottville Harvest Festival Scottville 73 Timberfest Lewiston 74 Tip Up Town ice fishing festival Houghton Lake 75 citation needed Traverse Bay Farms Salsa Bar Festival Elk Rapids Bellaire 76 citation needed Traverse City Film Festival Traverse City citation needed Venetian Festival Charlevoix 77 citation needed Weyerhauser Au Sable River Canoe Marathon Grayling to Oscoda One leg of the Triple Crown of Canoe Racing This is one of the few pro am canoeing events in the U S and winning times may be as long as 21 hours 78 79 80 WinterFest and Kalkaska 81 Includes a sled dog race 82 World Famous Labor Day Fish Boil Northport Michigan citation needed History editSee also Timeline of Michigan history and Michigan History Pre colonial era itinerant Native American tribes edit nbsp Map showing the approximate location of major tribes and settlements around 1648 83 nbsp Map of Iroquois expansion during Beaver Wars 1638 1711 Through the lucrative fur trade the Iroquois gained European weapons giving them an advantage against tribes in the Great Lakes region whose lands they took over For thousands of years before the French and English set up colonies in the region Northern Michigan was inhabited by Native American cultures and succeeding tribes Northern Michigan was the southern extent of the area scholars believed occupied by prehistoric inhabitants known as the Laurel complex They were part of the Hopewell Indian exchange system which is named after a prehistoric tribe that existed in the Great Lakes region 84 According to Menominee tradition this tribe s original homeland was farther north near present day Sault Ste Marie and Michilimackinac At some period before European contact probably around 1600 they were forced southwest to the Menominee River by arrival of the Ojibwe Odawa and Potawatomi from the east 85 Odawa history written by Andrew Blackbird records that Emmet County was thickly populated by a race of Indians that they called the Mush co desh which means the prairie tribe The Mush co desh had an agrarian society and were said to have shaped the land by making the woodland into prairie as they abandoned their old worn out gardens which formed grassy plains Ottawa tradition claims that they slaughtered from forty to fifty thousand Mush co desh and drove the rest from the land after the Mush co desh insulted an Ottawa war party At this same time the areas surrounding the Straits of Mackinac was home to the Michinemackinawgo 86 They were a race of natives of small stature that were nearly wiped out by the Iroquois in the 1640s during the Beaver Wars The remnants of this race were taken in by the Ojibwe and still exist today amongst the Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians 87 In the historic period the Anishinaabe Algonquian speaking peoples known as the Ojibwe Odawa and Potawatomi formed a loose confederation which they called the Council of Three Fires They inhabited areas surrounding the Straits of Mackinac the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan and the northern islands and shoreline of Canada along Lake Huron French and English colonial eras fur trade and exploration based at the Straits edit See also North American fur trade nbsp Much of New France s Pays d en Haut Upper Country remained unexplored in the mid 1600s Nicolas Sanson d Abbbeville s 1650 map was the first to show all five Great Lakes 88 Initial colonial influence on Natives French exploration and Beaver Wars edit In 1608 Samuel de Champlain established Quebec as part of New France He sent coureur des bois such as Etienne Brule into the woods to establish relations with the Indians Around 1615 or 1616 Champlain traveled to Georgian Bay via the French River and met Ottawa and Huron Indians on the south end near Penetanguishene 89 90 91 92 The French established the North American fur trade with Indian tribes In the decades that followed French explorers and missionaries continued to explore the Upper Country of New France that included the Upper Great Lakes In 1634 Jean Nicolet passed through the straits of Mackinac on the way to Wisconsin 93 While France colonized the interior lands along the St Lawrence River the Dutch and English began colonizing the East Coast of North America setting up fur trade and arming the Iroquois along the east and southeast of the Great Lakes Competition for trade and pelts resulted in the brutal Beaver Wars The Iroquois pushed west into the Great Lakes territory displacing the tribes who had settled there before As a result of an Iroquois attack and dispersal of the Huron from Southern Ontario in 1649 the Huron sought refuge with the Ojibwe at Michilimackinac where eventually a Jesuit mission was established for their care 94 Jesuit Mission at St Ignace 1671 1696 edit nbsp After taking refuge at Michilimackinac during the Beaver Wars many Wyandot Huron migrated to the areas of Detroit Windsor and northern Ohio in the early 18th century 95 Jesuit Father Marquette set up a mission in St Ignace in 1671 While the Beaver Wars raged on Marquette evangelized the Indians From May 17 1673 until Marquette s death near Ludington on May 18 1675 Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet explored and mapped Lake Michigan and the northern portion of the Mississippi River In 1679 Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle and Father Louis Hennepin set out on Le Griffon to find the Northwest Passage it was the first known sailing ship to sail in Northern Michigan They sailed across Lake Erie Lake Huron and Lake Michigan through uncharted waters which previously only men in canoes had explored After Marquette s death the mission was taken over by Father Phillip Pierson and then Father Nouvel 96 Father Henri Nouvel was superior of the Ottowa mission 97 Nouvel served in this position from 1672 to 1680 with a two year break in 1678 1679 and again from 1688 to 1695 98 Under Nouvel a new chapel was built in approximately 1674 By 1683 the mission was so successful and prosperous that three priests Fathers Nicholas Potier Enjalran and Pierre Bailloquet were assigned there 96 The establishment of a French garrison at St Ignace in 1679 disrupted relations between the French and the local population as the soldiers were less educated and amiable than the missionaries 1680s Fortification Fort de Buade at St Ignace edit In 1683 Governor Joseph Antoine de La Barre ordered Daniel Greysolon Sieur du Lhut and Olivier Morel de La Durantaye to establish a strategic presence on the north shore of the Straits of Mackinac which connected Lake Michigan and Lake Huron of the Great Lakes They fortified the Jesuit mission at St Ignace and La Durantaye settled in as overall commander of the French forts in the northwest Fort Saint Louis des Illinois Utica Illinois Fort Kaministigoya Thunder Bay Ontario and Fort la Tourette Lake Nipigon Ontario He was also responsible for the region around Green Bay in present day Wisconsin In the spring of 1684 La Durantaye led a relief expedition from Saint Ignace to Fort Saint Louis des Illinois which had been besieged by the Seneca part of the Iroquois Confederacy as part of the Beaver Wars they sought to gain more hunting grounds in order to control the lucrative fur trade That summer and again in 1687 La Durantaye led coureurs de bois and Indians from the Straits against the Seneca homeland in the territory of western upper New York state During these years English traders from New York penetrated the Great Lakes and also traded at Michilimackinac This and the outbreak of war between England and France in 1689 led to the new commandant Louis de La Porte de Louvigny directing construction of Fort de Buade in 1690 1690s Cadillac at Fort de Buade St Ignace Fort and Mission later abandoned edit In the 1690s commander Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac used Fort de Buade as a base of operations to explore and map the Great Lakes Cadillac left St Ignace in 1697 and the Jesuits vacated their residence and church by 1705 99 The Beaver Wars ended when the Great Peace of Montreal was signed in 1701 in Montreal by the French and 39 Indian chiefs including Kondiaronk the chief of the Mackinaw area Huron When Antoine Laumet de La Mothe sieur de Cadillac left the area in 1701 to found Detroit taking many of the St Ignace residents with him the importance of the mission declined dramatically 96 Early 1700s Fort Michilimackinac established as a New France outpost edit nbsp Map of French and British North American possessions in the early 18th century After ceding Hudson s Bay to the British in the Treaty of Utrecht France built forts such as Fort Michilimackinac to protect the New France fur trade from the British Hudson s Bay Company nbsp Northern Michigan as shown on a 1755 Map of New France showing various islands land features rivers and settlements In French I du Castor means Beaver Island L ours qui dort means The Bear That Sleeps and Ance au tonnerre means Thunder Bay The map also shows several rivers that retained some similar names Rue Aux Buscies and Rue d Oulamanittie Rue du Pierre Marquet The St Ignace mission remained open until 1705 when it was abandoned and burned by Father Etienne de Carheil 100 It was reopened in 1712 and operated on the north shore of the Straits until 1741 when it was relocated to the south shore 101 With the relocation of the mission the exact location of Marquette s chapel was lost 100 In 1712 at the beginning of a 25 year war between the French and the Fox tribe Canadian Governor Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil sent Constant le Marchand de Lignery to reoccupy the former post of Michilimackinac which had been abandoned in 1696 by royal orders Around 1715 during the First Fox War the French re established a Northern Michigan military outpost at a new site on the northern tip of the lower peninsula and called it Fort Michilimackinac This location became the new locus for fur and other trade and mission work with the natives Lignery returned to the command of Michilimackinac in 1722 after an absence of about three years fighting the Fox in Illinois He carried out the orders of acting Governor Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil and starting in 1726 New France governor Charles de la Boische Marquis de Beauharnois From 1720 to 1722 Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix stopped at Michilimackinac and other points in Northern Michigan while seeking a Pacific Ocean passage In 1728 fur trader Augustin Langlade obtained a fur trading license at Michilimackinac He and his half Ottawa son Charles Michel de Langlade born at the fort in 1729 would later strongly influence the Northern Michigan fur trade as well as French relations with Great Lakes tribes during the 1712 to 1733 Fox Wars and the 1754 1763 French and Indian War By 1745 the Odawa had created settlements down the coast of Lake Michigan into the Grand Traverse Bay area with an approximate population between 1 550 and 3 000 This population varied with the seasons as the tradition was to migrate inland to different camps sometimes as far as to Illinois depending upon the season 102 Some Ojibwe bands also shared the Grand Traverse Bay region with the Odawa 102 In 1751 a Jesuit Mission to the Odawa was established in Manistee 103 1760s Beginning of the British era edit In the 1760s after defeating the French in the French and Indian War and in the Seven Years War in Europe the British took control of the Straits of Mackinac and other French territory east of the Mississippi River They encountered resistance from the Natives who rose up in what was called Pontiac s War 1763 1766 On June 2 1763 Ojibwe and Sauk warriors killed the majority of white residents at Fort Michilimackinac Alexander Henry the elder one of the survivors was taken captive and transported to Beaver Island but was rescued by the Odawa Wawatam The British built the more substantial Fort Mackinac at the site in 1780 104 105 The success of rebels in the American Revolutionary War led to another change in parties in the region Great Britain formally ceded Fort Mackinac at Mackinac Island to the newly independent United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1783 but the British Army refused to evacuate the posts on the Great Lakes until 1796 At that time they transferred the forts at Detroit Mackinac and Niagara to the Americans British and American forces contested the area again throughout the War of 1812 The boundary was not settled until 1828 when Fort Drummond a British post on nearby Drummond Island was evacuated 1780s to 1830s United States territorial acquisition continued fur trade and territorial disputes edit The entire Straits area was officially acquired by the United States from the British through the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and settlement permitted by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 However much of the British forces did not leave the Great Lakes area until after 1794 when Jay s Treaty established U S sovereignty over the Northwest Territory with Northern Michigan part of Knox County 106 Between 1795 and 1815 a system of Metis descendants of indigenous women who married French and later Scottish fur trappers and traders settlements and trading posts was established throughout Michigan Wisconsin and to a lesser extent in Illinois and Indiana As late as 1829 the Metis were dominant in the economy of Wisconsin and influential in Northern Michigan 107 in part because they were able to work as intermediaries between natives and white fur traders US settlement of the Michigan Territory established in 1805 was punctuated by misunderstandings with Native Americans over land ownership Meanwhile in 1804 Mackinac Island was the center of the American fur trade 108 Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard was one of many of John Jacob Astor s trappers and voyageurs 109 who plied the waters of the Great Lakes in Mackinaw boats and collected pelts to be sold in Europe 110 As US Congress passed trade and intercourse acts to regulate trade with the natives the Office of Indian Trade established a US Trading Post factory at Mackinaw that was in place until the War of 1812 111 112 One of the first engagements of the War of 1812 the Siege of Fort Mackinac was conducted by British and Native American They captured the island soon after the outbreak of war between Britain and the United States Encouraged by the easy British victory more Native Americans subsequently rallied to their support Native American cooperation was an important factor in several British victories during the remainder of the war For the rest of 1812 and 1813 the British hold on Mackinac was secure since they also held Detroit the territorial capital which the Americans would have to recapture before attacking Mackinac After the September 1813 Battle of Lake Erie the British abandoned Detroit leaving an opportunity for the Americans try to retake the waters of Northern Michigan In July 1814 as Commander of Fort Mackinaw Robert McDouall was struggling to supply war efforts Siege of Prairie du Chien Americans attacked Mackinaw in July 1814 during the Battle of Mackinac Island The Americans failed to take over the post and the British held Mackinac Island until the peace in 1815 after which it was re occupied by the US 113 114 Mackinac Island continued to be a locus of trade for the American Fur Company and was the site where Army doctor William Beaumont became Post surgeon 115 in 1820 116 and began conducting his famous digestion experiments on 19 year old Alexis St Martin between 1822 and 1833 117 118 Mackinac Island was also the site where Henry Schoolcraft located his US Indian Agent headquarters starting in 1833 Following the 1830 Indian Removal Act Schoolcraft negotiated the 1836 Treaty of Washington which opened up the land north of Grand Rapids for unequivocal legal ownership and settlement of lands in Northern Michigan with provision that land sales would provide some monetary means to fund skills training for the Natives to assimilate to civilized life Despite the presence of fur trade US military and Indian offices and various tradesmen the settled population of Michilimackinac defined as all the settlements from Saginaw to Green Bay was between 800 and 1000 for the time period between 1820 and 1840 119 Early coastal settlements in the 1830s through 1850s edit nbsp The 1835 Tourist s Pocket Map of Michigan by S Augustus Mitchell shows the relatively undeveloped Northern Michigan even as a steamboat route operated between Detroit and Chicago via Michilimackinac nbsp This inset image from the 1835 Tourist s Pocket Map of Michigan lists the stops taken along the 980 mile steamboat route between Detroit and Chicago via Michilimackinac Northern Michigan stops between miles 197 and 519 included Thunder Bay Isles Sandy Bay Islands Presqu Isle Bois Blanc Island Mackinac Island and Beaver Island nbsp Northern Michigan islands rivers and shore landmarks featured prominently on this 1835 Tourist s Pocket Map Of Michigan nbsp In the 1836 Treaty of Washington Michigan tribes ceded claims to lands in the yellow Royce No 205 area above covering eastern Upper Peninsula and the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan to the United States and opened it to settlement nbsp As settlers arrived between 1840 and 1853 the state broke up the single Michilimackinac County and established platted counties across Northern Michigan This 1853 map by S A Mitchell shows an improved understanding of the contours and inland lakes and streams of Northern Michigan based on recent land surveys Decline of Mackinaw and fur trade edit By the 1840s the American Fur Company was in steep decline as silk hats replaced beaver hats in European fashion 120 121 The straits of Mackinac declined in influence as government offices moved towards the capital at Detroit While fishing slightly increased the loss of the fur industry dealt a blow to Michilimackinac s economic significance 122 Increased ship traffic along Northern Michigan coasts edit The Erie Canal opened in 1825 allowing settlers from New England and New York to reach Michigan by water through Albany and Buffalo This route opening and the incorporation of Chicago in 1837 123 increased Great Lakes steamboat traffic from Detroit through the straits of Mackinac to Chicago 124 125 126 While the coastal areas were travelled practically nothing was known about the interior parts of Northern Michigan 127 When Michigan became a state in 1837 one of its first acts was to name Douglass Houghton as the lead of the Michigan Geological Survey an effort to understand the geological and mineralogical zoological botanical and topographical aspects of the lesser known parts of Michigan 128 Early settlers came to the coasts along Northern Michigan including fishermen missionaries to the Native Americans and participants in early Great Lakes maritime industries such as fishing lighthouses and cutting cordwood for passing ships In 1835 Lieutenant Benjamin Poole of the 3rd U S Artillery 129 surveyed a former Indian path between Saginaw and Mackinac that would become known as the Mackinac Trail Indian missions edit Missions to Native Americans included Rev Peter Dougherty 130 and Rev John Fleming s 1839 Presbyterian mission on the Old Mission Peninsula William Montague Ferry s Presbyterian affiliated 1825 Mission House Mission Church on Mackinac Island Magdelaine Laframboise and Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli s Catholic Sainte Anne Church on Mackinac Island in 1830 Frederic Baraga Francis Xavier Pierz and Ignatius Mrak s Catholic mission to the people of the Chippewa and Ottawa at L Arbre Croche and Peshawbestown on the Leelanau Peninsula Peter Greensky s Methodist Greensky Hill church founded near the Little Traverse Bay in 1844 and an 1848 congregationalist mission founded by Chief Peter Waukazoo and Reverend George Smith in Northport on the Leelanau Peninsula The Strangite Mormon community move to Beaver Island in 1848 131 brought additional conflicts as the Mormon leaders sought to enforce laws and restrict use of alcohol on the Beaver Archipelago 132 Fishing settlements edit Key fishing settlements included Fishtown in Leland Michigan and the Beaver Island Archipelago Lighthouses edit Early Northern Michigan lighthouses included Thunder Bay Island Light 1831 Old Presque Isle Light 1840 South Manitou Island Lighthouse 1840 DeTour Reef Light 1847 Waugoshance Light 1851 Grand Traverse Light 1852 Tawas Point Light 1853 Beaver Island Harbor Light 1856 Beaver Island Head Light 1858 and Point Betsie Light 1858 While the United States Lifesaving Service did not establish a system of Great Lakes Lifeboat stations on the Great Lakes until the 1870s 133 some volunteer stations such as the North Manitou Island Lifesaving Station were created as early as 1854 Tension between White settlement and Native American land claims edit In the 1836 Treaty of Washington Michigan tribes ceded claims to land in Northern Michigan and opened it to settlement In the 1840s Odawa villages lined the Lake Michigan shore especially from present day Harbor Springs to Cross Village The area on the tip of the peninsula was mostly reserved for native tribes by treaty provisions with the U S federal government until 1875 Early government had been centered around Mackinac Island and St Ignace but between 1840 and 1853 the state broke up this single large Michilimackinac County 134 135 136 137 and established names and boundaries of about 21 counties across Northern Michigan This naming and surveying allowed specific platted lands to be sold at the Land Office 138 Increased white immigration and homesteading in Northern Michigan brought difficulties in dispatching of Native American land claims stemming from the treaty of 1836 Bands of Chippewa and Odawa Indians sought redress through the Treaty of 1855 139 by this 1855 treaty agreement lands and payments would be set aside for individual Native American families related to the 1836 treaty but after this treaty the US would cease to owe anything land money or other thing guaranteed to them to Indians or their tribes 140 1860s to 1890s Homestead Act settlements and industrial developments edit nbsp Starting in the 1870s railroads connected Northern Michigan to lower cities Increased settlement and establishment of port cities edit Now that the land was surveyed and outstanding native land claims eliminated Northern Michigan settlement increased even further The Homestead Act of 1862 brought many Civil War veterans and speculators to Northern Michigan by making 160 acre tracts of land available for 1 25 an acre 141 The cutting of wood for passing ships morphed into a full fledged lumber industry contributing to the rise of port cities like Manistee Traverse City Charlevoix and Ludington nbsp From 1836 to 1848 much of the Manistee River Valley including Manistee itself was an Ottawa Reservation 142 During the lumbering era of the late 1800s Manistee became a significant site for lumber mills Huge numbers of white pine logs were floated down the river to the port at Manistee and eventually on to the lumber markets of Grand Rapids Milwaukee and Chicago 1870s Arrival of rail infrastructure rampant lumbering and fishing and economic slowdown edit Starting in the 1870s railroads were built connecting Northern Michigan to larger industrial areas to the south The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad reached Traverse City in December 1872 via Walton Junction and Traverse City Rail Road Company and reached Petoskey known up to that point as Bear River in 1873 143 The Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad completed its terminal at Ludington in 1874 While the Michigan Central Railroad reached Otsego County in the fall of 1872 144 rail investments slowed for several years due to the financial panic of 1873 and the ensuing five year economic slowdown Cheboygan and 145 Mackinaw City did not have rail service until the early 1880s 146 Despite setbacks from the Great Michigan Fire in 1871 in Manistee and other lumbering ports lumbering in Northern Michigan greatly increased New mechanical tools such as steam powered versus water powered sawmills and circular saws expanded the ability to process high volumes of lumber quickly Narrow gauge moveable rails made it possible to harvest timber year round in previously inaccessible places away from rivers 147 The Michigan lumber market experienced a crash in July 1877 148 149 that coincided with the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 By 1880 the Great Lakes region would dominate logging with Michigan producing more lumber than any other state 150 The commercial fishing industry also flourished in the 1880s By 1881 the rich fishing areas around the Beaver Archipelago led to Beaver Island becoming the largest supplier of fresh water fish in the United States 151 By 1886 there was a drastic reduction in the amount of fishing produced due to overfishing 152 In 1893 the Michigan Fish Commission commissioned the University of Nebraska Zoologist Henry Ward to study the sources of food for Traverse Bay area fish 153 nbsp Passenger pigeons were hunted to extinction sometime after the 1870s with the last large nesting in Petoskey Michigan in 1878 The passenger pigeon was hunted in Northern Michigan as a source of food but by the 1870s a combination of increased population and economic scarcity led to over hunting and eventual extinction The massive flocks of passenger pigeons stopped darkening the skies of Northern Michigan especially after the last large scale nestings and subsequent slaughters of millions of birds in 1874 and 1878 By this time large nestings only took place in the north around the Great Lakes The last large nesting was in Petoskey Michigan in 1878 following one in Pennsylvania a few days earlier where 50 000 birds were killed each day for nearly five months The surviving adults attempted a second nesting at new sites but were killed by professional hunters before they had a chance to raise any young Scattered nestings were reported into the 1880s but the birds were now weary and commonly abandoned their nests if persecuted 154 1880s Emergence of resort and vacation industry edit Rail connections to the large midwestern cities through rail centers like Kalamazoo led to settlers immigrating and wealthy resorters establishing summer home associations in Bay View Association near Petoskey the Belvedere Club in Charlevoix and other lakeside getaways Starting in 1875 until 1895 the 1 044 acre 422 ha Mackinac National Park became the second National Park in the United States after Yellowstone National Park in the Rocky Mountains Sport fishing edit nbsp After being used for floating logs in previous decades 155 the Au Sable River in the 1880s became famous for fishing first for grayling and later for brook trout and brown trout nbsp Lumbering practices destroyed Arctic Grayling breeding grounds in rivers and led to their slow decline and the sport fishing industry also contributed to the grayling s eventual disappearance from Northern Michigan Sport fishing along the Au Sable River became a tourist attraction for wealthy sportsmen from Detroit Cleveland Cincinnati Buffalo Toledo Indianapolis and Chicago 156 After the Jackson Lansing and Saginaw Railroad reached Grayling in the late 1870s it began to advertise hunting and fishing trips in Crawford County home of the arctic grayling 156 In the same way the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway published a Guide to the Health Pleasure Game and Fishing Resorts of Northern Michigan reached by the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad in 1882 157 In 1880 Ansel Judd Northrup a lawyer from New York published a detailed account of his train trip to fish Northern Michigan and he assessed the Au Sable Manistee River Cheboygan River Pigeon River and Jordan River for trout and grayling fishing 158 The state of Michigan having created a Board of Fish Commissioners in 1873 stocked rivers with whitefish black bass and non native species such as California salmon California trout German carp and brook trout 159 The Board of Fish Commissioners created its first fish hatchery at Crystal Springs Creek in Pokagon and shipped rail cars full of small fish to streams across Michigan 160 161 As the grayling vanished from the Au Sable Manistee and other rivers the state propped up the Northern Michigan fishing industry with non native brook trout brown trout and rainbow trout steelhead 162 Ultimately the Arctic grayling that had inhabited much of Northern Michigan 163 was eventually wiped out The logging practice of using river beds to move logs in the springtime destroyed the breeding grounds for these fish 164 Before they could recover non native sport fish such as brook trout 165 took over the grayling s habitat and made them disappear from northern Michigan Industrial growth and diversification edit nbsp As the lumber industry declined rail lines such as the BCG amp A Railroad 1915 helped to access remote inland tracts of timber The effect of rail connections was ultimately transformative timber and other goods could be produced in the north and shipped to urban markets to the south Diverse industries developed such as iron works tanneries mills cement plants and agricultural enterprises By 1885 the intense harvesting and export of pine trees led to visible decline in the lumber industry s ability to produce white pine 166 Logging in Michigan peaked in 1889 167 Where available hardwoods and hemlock were harvested temporarily extending the life of lumbering in the area especially around East Jordan the Traverse Bay and near Crawford County 168 William Howard White s lumber railroad Boyne City Gaylord amp Alpena Railroad Company David Ward s Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad and the East Jordan and Southern Railroad enabled access to remote timber areas As lumbering declined rail lines began to promote Northern Michigan as a fresh air resort destination 169 and the logging companies promoted their cut over stump filled tracts for their agricultural potential 170 20th century resort era edit Early resorts edit The resort era flourished in lakeside areas of Northern Michigan even as the fishing and lumbering industries experienced slow decline Historian Bruce Catton s memoir Waiting for the Morning Train 1972 documents his personal experiences of early 20th century life in a small Northern Michigan town as Michigan s logging era was ending 171 Ernest Hemingway also documented turn of the century life in Northern Michigan through his Nick Adams stories Hemingway s own parents were resorters wintering in Oak Park Illinois but summering in the Windemere cottage on Walloon Lake starting in 1899 172 nbsp Traverse City State Park nbsp North Higgins Lake State Park nbsp Negwegon State ParkState parks edit As lumbering died down many parts of Northern Michigan returned to their forested state through conservation efforts The Huron National Forest was set aside in 1909 and the Manistee National Forest was set aside in 1938 State parks were established as well to include Interlochen State Park 1917 Mitchell State Park 1919 Burt Lake State Park 1920 Traverse City State Park 1920 Orchard Beach State Park 1921 Harrisville State Park 1921 Hoeft State Park 1922 Aloha State Park 1923 Straits State Park 1924 South Higgins Lake State Park 1927 Hartwick Pines State Park 1927 Wilderness State Park 1928 173 Cheboygan State Park 1962 174 Negwegon State Park 1962 Leelanau State Park 1964 North Higgins Lake State Park 1965 Clear Lake State Park 1966 Tawas Point State Park 1966 Petoskey State Park 1970 Fisherman s Island State Park 1975 Thompson s Harbor State Park 1988 Rockport State Park 2012 Ski resorts edit Hanson Hills in Grayling was the first downhill ski area in Michigan It opened in 1929 and was served by rail service 175 Caberfae Peaks Ski amp Golf Resort near Cadillac opened in 1938 and was served by rail service Boyne Mountain Resort opened in 1948 Crystal Mountain in Benzie County opened in 1956 Nub s Nob opened in 1958 near Harbor Springs Decline of rail edit As passenger railroad usage ended in the 1960s due in part to increased automobile travel aggressive promotion of Northern Michigan by local chambers of commerce led to many of the festivals and attractions that bring visitors north even today Education editInterlochen Center for the Arts is a notable arts center that offers a high school level academy and summer camp near Traverse City There are also several institutions of higher education in Northern Michigan Community colleges include North Central Michigan College NCMC pronounced nuck muck by locals Alpena Community College Huron Shores Campus Alpena Community College Kirtland Community College West Shore Community College and Northwestern Michigan College NMC including the Great Lakes Maritime Academy the only U S maritime academy on freshwater Northern Michigan has arguably only one four year university depending on the definition of the southern boundary of the region Ferris State University in Big Rapids Other nearby universities are in the Upper Peninsula Northern Michigan University and Lake Superior State University as well as Central Michigan University and Ferris State University in the more southern reaches of the state The University of Michigan runs the University of Michigan Biological Station out of Pellston MI Central Michigan University runs the CMU Biological Station on Beaver Island Hillsdale College runs the biological station in Lake County Many four year universities located downstate offer bachelor s and master s degree programs through Northwestern Michigan College s unique University Center program located in Traverse City The University Center located in Traverse City is a joint program with Northwestern Michigan College and various universities around the state that allows local students to attend universities that offer bachelor s and master s degrees programs not available through NMC a two year college locally without leaving Northern Michigan NMC supplies the facilities while the senior universities provide the education and endorsement Universities offering programs here include Michigan State University Western Michigan University Central Michigan University Grand Valley State University Ferris State University Spring Arbor University and others 176 Economy editSee also Michigan Economy The economy of Northern Michigan is limited by its lower population few industries and reduced agriculture compared to lower Michigan Seasonal and tourism related employment is significant Unemployment rates are generally high In June 2007 seven of the ten highest unemployment rates occurred in counties in the Northern Michigan area 177 Historically Fur trade lumbering and commercial fishing were among the most important industries The fur trade essentially died out in the 1840s Logging is still important but at a mere fraction of its heyday 1860 1910 output Commercial fishing is a minor activity Vacation and tourism edit A major draw to Northern Michigan is tourism Real estate especially condominiums and summer homes is another significant source of income Because money spent in the real estate and tourism market in Northern Michigan is dependent upon visitors from southern Michigan and the Chicago area the Northern Michigan economy is sensitive to downswings in the automobile and other industries 178 Agriculture edit nbsp This map of hardiness zones demonstrates Northern Michigan s temperature extremes compared to the southern half of the lower peninsula Most Michigan fruit sites are in Zone 5 or 6 179 making the Leelanau Peninsula and Grand Traverse Bay area uniquely conducive to cherries and other fruit trees Agriculture is limited by the climate and soil conditions compared to southern regions of the state However there are significant potato and dry bean farms in the east Wine grapes vegetables and cherries are produced in the west in the protected microclimates around Grand Traverse Bay The Grand Traverse region has two of Michigan s four federally recognized wine growing areas The Grand Traverse Bay area is listed as one of the most endangered agricultural regions in the U S as its scenic land is highly sought after for vacation homes Heavy industry edit Heavy industrial developments are sparse The northeast corner has an industrial base Quarrying and mining edit Cement making and the mining of limestone and gypsum for Portland Cement are major exports of the area Charlevoix s Medusa Cement Plant was bought by Cemex in the 1990s Alpena is home to the Lafarge Company s holdings in the world s largest cement plant and is home to Besser Block Co Jesse M Besser invented concrete block in 1904 and founded the Besser Block Co in Alpena after making the concrete block making machine USG Corporation also known as United States Gypsum Corporation operates several quarries including one at Alabaster and one in Rogers City Rogers City is the locale of the world s largest limestone quarry which is also used in steel making all along the Great Lakes Energy oil and natural gas edit nbsp Antrim Shale reserves in northern MichiganNorthern Michigan has significant natural gas reserves along the Antrim shale formation in northern Michigan By some estimates it is the 15th largest gas field in the nation 180 Drilling activity peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s 181 In 2014 Encana the Canadian company who had been drilling in Northern Michigan sold their mineral rights to Marathon Oil order to focus on more profitable operations elsewhere For oil interest Encana amassed rights for the Collingwood Utica Shale Michigan between 2008 and 2010 mostly in Cheboygan Kalkaska Michigan and Missaukee counties The Collingwood layer is two miles below the surface and would require horizontal drilling 182 183 184 Manufacturing edit Alpena has a hardboard manufacturing facility owned by Decorative Panels International Nearer to the Lake Michigan shore Cadillac and Manistee have manufacturing and chemical industries Morton Salt operates one of the largest salt plants in the world in Manistee Also the East Jordan Iron Works corporate offices as well as the original foundry are located in East Jordan Maritime edit A small number of people work on the Great Lakes freighters Adjacent to the Traverse City Cherry Capital Airport is a United States Coast Guard air station CGAS which is responsible for both maritime and land based search and rescue operations in the northern Great Lakes region Military edit Military presence in Northern Michigan is as follows Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center in Alpena Michigan is run by the Air National Guard and is co located with the Alpena County Regional Airport Camp Grayling near Grayling Michigan Camp Grayling is the largest military installation east of the Mississippi River and the nation s largest National Guard training site It is used by the U S National Guard as well as active and reserve components of the Army Navy Air Force and Marine Corps Year round training is conducted on its 147 000 acres 590 km2 in Crawford Kalkaska and Otsego counties Much of the land including Lake Margrethe is accessible to the public for hunting fishing snowmobiling and other recreational uses when military training is not happening Wurtsmith Air Force Base near Oscoda closed in 1993 and has been converted to civilian use as Oscoda Wurtsmith Airport The Coast Guard has a presence in Charlevoix Cheboygan and Traverse City Transportation editTransportation by air edit Airports serving Northern Michigan include MBS International Airport near Freeland Pellston Regional Airport 185 Traverse City Cherry Capital Airport and Alpena County Regional Airport in the Lower peninsula Depending on one s destination Chippewa County International Airport in Sault Ste Marie in the eastern Upper peninsula might be a viable alternative Grand Rapids and Bishop airport at Flint although neither is within the area also have scheduled service proximate to parts of the region The Oscoda Wurtsmith Airport is now a public airport which gives 24 hour near all weather service for general aviation Transportation by water edit Several ferries still operate in the region The SS Badger carferry departs from Ludington and arrives in Wisconsin Ferry service between Charlevoix and Beaver Island is provided by M V Emerald Isle and occasionally the older M V Beaver Islander 186 The Straits of Mackinac is home to lake ferries that take passengers to Mackinac Island from either Mackinaw City in the Lower Peninsula or St Ignace in the Upper Peninsula A ferry for tours of Charity Island in the middle of Saginaw Bay and the Charity Island Light and even dinner cruises are available It leaves from Au Gres on the mainland south of Tawas 187 The Kristen D is a ferry which operates between Cheboygan and Bois Blanc Island 188 The largest bridge in Northern Michigan is the Mackinac Bridge connecting Northern Michigan to the Upper Peninsula The second largest is the Zilwaukee Bridge Transportation by land edit On land Michigan is a unique travel environment Consequently drivers should be forewarned travel distances should not be underestimated Michigan s overall length is only 456 miles 734 km and width 386 miles 621 km but because of the lakes those distances cannot be traveled directly The distance from northwest to the southeast corner is 456 miles 734 km as the crow flies However travelers must go around the Great Lakes For example when traveling to the Upper Peninsula it is well to realize that it is roughly 300 miles 480 km from Detroit to the Mackinac Bridge but it is another 300 miles 480 km from St Ignace to Ironwood Likewise direct routes are few and far between Interstate 75 I 75 and M 115 do angle from the southeast to the northwest but most roads are oriented either east west or north south oriented with township lines set up under the Land Ordinance of 1785 Transit edit Bay Area Transportation Authority Indian TrailsAutomobile roads edit nbsp US 131 in red US 23 in orange and I 75 in blue are three primary highways bringing downstate automobile traffic to Northern Michigan nbsp The SS Badger connects the Wisconsin and Michigan segments of US 10 nbsp The Grandview Parkway in Traverse City serves as a bypass of downtown and in total carries four different highways along its length US 31 M 22 M 37 amp M 72The primary means of transportation in Northern Michigan is by automobile citation needed Northern Michigan is served by one Interstate and a number of U S Highways and Michigan state trunklines 189 nbsp I 75 runs northwest southeast through the region between the Flint Tri Cities area and Mackinac Bridge at Mackinaw City which leads on to the Upper Peninsula nbsp US 10 enters Michigan after it crosses Lake Michigan from Manitowoc to Ludington US 10 runs from Ludington through Baldwin and Reed City before it becomes a freeway west of US 127 near the junction with M 115 US 10 bypasses Midland and terminates at I 75 in Bay City nbsp US 23 runs northward for about 200 miles 320 km along or parallel with the Lake Huron shoreline as the Sunrise Side Coastal Highway from the Flint Tri Cities area nbsp US 31 mainly parallels the Lake Michigan shore from the Ludington area north to Mackinaw City near Traverse City the highway cuts the base of the Leelanau Peninsula nbsp US 127 ends at Grayling connecting Northern Michigan with points south nbsp US 131 is a primary north south highway that is a freeway from Manton southwards north of the freeway terminus the highway is mostly two lanes connecting Kalkaska Mancelona and ending at US 31 in Petoskey nbsp M 18 runs between Midland County through Prudenville and Roscommon to M 72 in Crawford County nbsp M 22 follows the Lake Michigan shoreline from Traverse City to Manistee and is a scenic drive along the Leelanau Peninsula and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore nbsp M 27 runs along the old route of US 27 between Indian River and Cheboygan nbsp M 32 runs between East Jordan and Alpena nbsp M 33 runs between Alger northwest of Standish and Cheboygan nbsp M 37 runs from Battle Creek via Grand Rapids to Traverse City and the Old Mission Peninsula nbsp M 42 is a short route between Manton and M 66 north of Lake City nbsp M 55 is a 150 mile 240 km transpeninsular highway at the southern edge of the region from Manistee to Tawas City nbsp M 65 runs northward from Au Gres just north of Standish to Rogers City nbsp M 66 traverses almost the entire north south distance of the Lower Peninsula ending at Charlevoix nbsp M 68 is an east west state highway that runs from Alanson to Rogers City it passes through Indian River Afton Tower and Onaway nbsp M 72 crosses the Lower Peninsula from Empire via Traverse City to Harrisville nbsp M 75 is a connector between US 131 and Boyne City and despite its proximity to the highway is not related to I 75 nbsp M 88 traverses Antrim County from Eastport to Mancelona via a handful of small towns nbsp M 93 is a short highway connecting Camp Grayling Hartwick Pines and the city of Grayling in Crawford County nbsp M 109 serves as a scenic loop off M 22 in the Sleeping Bear Dunes nbsp M 113 runs across southern Grand Traverse County connecting M 37 US 131 and the village of Kingsley nbsp M 115 is a diagonal highway taking a generally northwest southeast direction from Clare to Frankfort nbsp M 119 spurs off US 31 near Petoskey through Harbor Springs and along the Lake Michigan Coast as the Tunnel of Trees nbsp M 137 is a short highway running from US 31 to Interlochen Center for the Arts The highway has become famous among students nbsp M 204 cuts across Leelanau County from Leland to Suttons Bay nbsp M 212 is the shortest signed highway in the state connecting Aloha State Park to M 33 south of Cheboygan Past railroads edit The Northern Lower Peninsula was home to many different railroads during the late 19th and early 20th centuries One of these lines was the Detroit Bay City amp Alpena Railroad later known as the Detroit and Mackinac Railway The railroad had a main line along the Lake Huron shore and branch lines connecting to logging camps and gravel quarries The railroad was a part owner of the SS Chief Wawatam a rail car ferry that crossed the Straits of Mackinac Running down the center of the Northern Lower Peninsula was the Michigan Central Railroad which connected Mackinaw City with Bay City Detroit Lansing and beyond This line later became the New York Central and was sold to the Detroit and Mackinac Railway in 1976 190 Several other railroads have existed in Alpena s history 191 On the west side of the peninsula the Chicago and West Michigan Railway later the Pere Marquette Railway and several commercial cruise lines were early in generating traffic to Northern Michigan destinations The Pere Marquette Railway operated rail car ferries across Lake Michigan out of Ludington The most known ferry is the SS Badger which is still in use today for automobiles and passengers The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad provided rail service between Cincinnati Ohio and Mackinaw City It was later bought out by the Pennsylvania Railroad It served resort towns such as Traverse City Petoskey and Cadillac In 1975 the line was bought by the Michigan Department of Transportation and the Michigan Northern Railway was contracted to operate By 1984 much of the railroad was abandoned and operations were handed over to the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway The Ann Arbor was a railroad stretching from Toledo Ohio to Elberta Michigan where it operated a rail car ferry until 1982 The ferry serviced the cities of Manitowoc Wisconsin Menominee Michigan and Manistique Michigan The Ann Arbor became a part of Conrail and then was later divided up between the Michigan Northern Railway and the Michigan Interstate Railway Company The remaining portions of the line were absorbed into the state owned lines operated by the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway 192 Present railroads edit Currently Northern Michigan s railroad system is a skeleton of its former self After the Chief Wawatam stopped running in 1984 rail lines serving the Straits of Mackinac were soon abandoned In years past four different railroads served Mackinaw City and St Ignace and now none are left The remainder of the former Detroit and Mackinac Railway is now the Lake State Railway It operates a line from Bay City to Pinconning where it then branches northeast to Alpena and northwest to Gaylord Portions of the former Pere Marquette Railway Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad and the Ann Arbor Railroad became the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway The main line of this railway runs from Ann Arbor north to Petoskey with branch lines to Yuma and Traverse City The railroad was renamed the Great Lakes Central Railroad There have been discussions of reviving passenger service along this line citation needed Flora and fauna editCommon plants edit nbsp Extent of the Laurentian Mixed Forest nearly coincides with Northern MichiganNorthern Michigan has many tree types including maple birch oak ash white cedar aspen pine and beech Ferns milkweed Queen Anne s lace and chicory grow in the open fields and along roadsides Forest plants include wild leeks morel mushrooms and trilliums Marram grass grows on beaches Several mosses cover the land Common mammals edit Common mammals in Northern Michigan include white tailed deer fox raccoons porcupines and rabbits black bear elk coyote bobcat wolves and mountain lions are also present Although not common the presence of cougars has been persistently reported over many years 193 194 195 Fish include whitefish yellow perch trout bass northern pike walleye muskie and sunfish Common birds edit Common birds are ducks seagulls wild turkey great blue herons northern cardinals blue jays black capped chickadees hummingbirds Baltimore oriole and ruffed grouse Canada geese may be seen flying over head in spring and fall Less well known birds that are unique in Michigan to the Northern Lower Peninsula are spruce grouse sharp tailed grouse red throated loon Swainson s hawk and the boreal owl 196 197 The Au Sable State Forest is a state forest in the north central Lower Peninsula of Michigan Much of the forest is used for wildlife game management and the fostering of endangered and rare species such as the Kirtland s warbler there are regular controlled burns to maintain its habitat The Kirtland s warbler has its habitat in an increasing part of the area 198 There is a Kirtland s Warbler Festival which is sponsored in part by Kirtland Community College 199 The American Bird Conservancy and the National Audubon Society have designated several locations as internationally Important Bird Areas 200 Common insects edit Insect populations are similar to those found elsewhere in the midwestern United States ladybugs crickets dragonflies mosquitoes ants house flies and grasshoppers are common as is the Western conifer seed bug and several kinds of butterflies and moths for example monarch butterflies and tomato worm moths Notable deviations in insect populations are a high population of June bugs during June as well as a scarcity of lightning bugs because of the lower average temperatures year round and especially in the summer Northern Michigan is home to Michigan s most endangered species and one of the most endangered species in the world the Hungerford s crawling water beetle The species lives in only five locations in the world four of which are in Northern Michigan one is in Bruce County Ontario Indeed the only stable population of the rare beetle occurs along a two and a half mile stretch of the East Branch of the Maple River in Emmet County Michigan Common reptiles edit There are no fatally venomous snakes native to Northern Michigan The venomous Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake lives in Michigan but it is not common particularly in Northern Michigan In any event its non fatal bite may make an adult sick but it should be medically treated without delay Snakes present include the eastern hog nosed snake brown snake common garter snake eastern milk snake and the northern ribbon snake The only common reptiles and amphibians are various pond frogs toads salamanders and small turtles State Forests and conservation areas edit The state forests in the U S state of Michigan are managed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Forest Mineral and Fire Management unit It is the largest state forest system in the nation at 3 900 000 acres 16 000 km2 See List of Michigan state forests The Northern lower peninsula includes three forests Mackinaw State Forest Atlanta FMU Alpena northeast Cheboygan most of Montmorency and most of Presque Isle counties Gaylord FMU Antrim Charlevoix most of Cheboygan Emmet and most of Otsego counties Pigeon River Country FMU southeast Cheboygan northwest Montmorency northeast Otsego and southwest Presque Isle counties Pere Marquette State Forest Cadillac FMU Lake Mason Mecosta Missaukee Newaygo Oceana Osceola and Wexford counties Traverse City FMU Benzie Grand Traverse Leelanau Kalkaska Manistee counties Au Sable State Forest Gladwin FMU Arenac Bay Clare Gladwin southern Iosco Isabella and Midland counties Grayling FMU Alcona Crawford Oscoda and northern Iosco counties Roscommon FMU Ogemaw and Roscommon counties In addition large portions of this area are covered by the Manistee National Forest and the Huron National Forest In the former a unique environment is present at the Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness This relatively small area of 3 450 acres 14 0 km2 on Lake Michigan s east shore is one of few wilderness areas in the U S with an extensive lake shore dunes ecosystem The dunes are 3500 to 4000 years old and rise to nearly 140 feet 43 m higher than the lake The Nordhouse Dunes are interspersed with woody vegetation such as jack pine juniper and hemlock Many small water holes and marshes dot the landscape and dune grass covers some of the dunes The wide and sandy beach is ideal for walks and sunset viewing Eight islands off the Lakes Michigan and Huron coasts Charlevoix and Alpena counties respectively are part of the Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge Notable people editSee the Notable people sections in the various settlement articles Media editNorthern Michigan is in the Designated Market Areas of Traverse City Cadillac 116 Alpena 208 and some portions of Flint Saginaw Bay City 66 Newspapers edit Main article List of newspapers in Michigan Alcona County Review Harrisville The Alpena News Boyne City Gazette Cadillac Evening News Charlevoix Courier Cheboygan Daily Tribune Citizen Journal Boyne City East Jordan Crawford County Avalanche Grayling Gaylord Herald Times Grand Traverse Herald weekly in Traverse City Iosco County News Herald Tawas City The Leader and the Kalkaskian Kalkaska Leelanau Enterprise Leland Ludington Daily News Manistee Daily News Advocate Mears News historical defunct Midland Daily News Missaukee Sentinel Lake City Northern Express Weekly weekly in Traverse City Onaway Outlook Oscoda Press Petoskey News Review Presque Isle County Advance Rogers City St Ignace News serving the Straits area The Town Meeting Elk Rapids Traverse City Record Eagle White Pine Press 201 Northwestern Michigan College Daily editions of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News are also available throughout the area with the Bay City Times and Saginaw News available in the east and The Grand Rapids Press available in the west Magazines edit Traverse is published monthly with a focus on regional interests Radio edit Main article List of radio stations in Michigan FM edit designates a simulcast 88 5 WIAB Mackinaw City 88 7 WIAA 88 5 WSFP Rust Twp Alpena Smile FM 88 7 WIAA Interlochen Classical IPR Music Radio 89 3 WTLI Bear Creek Twp Petoskey Contemporary Christian Smile FM 88 1 WLGH Lansing 89 7 WJOJ Harrisville Alpena Smile FM 89 9 WLJN Traverse City Religious 90 5 WPHN Gaylord Adult Contemporary Christian The Promise FM also airs on 99 7 FM translator in Petoskey 90 7 WNMC Traverse City Variety College 90 9 WTCK Charlevoix Catholic also airs on translators 92 1 FM Gaylord 95 3 FM Mackinaw City 90 9 WMSD Rose Township Ogemaw County Religious 91 1 WOLW Cadillac 90 5 WPHN 91 3 WJOG Good Hart Petoskey Smile FM 91 3 WZHN East Tawas 90 5 WPHN 91 5 WICA Traverse City NPR Public News Talk 91 7 WCML Alpena Public Music Variety News Talk CMU Public Radio 92 1 WTWS Houghton Lake Hot Country 92 1 The Twister 92 3 WBNZ Beulah currently silent 92 5 WFDX Atlanta Silent 92 9 WJZQ Cadillac Traverse City Contemporary Hits Z 93 93 5 WBCM Boyne City 103 5 WTCM 93 7 WKAD Harrietta Cadillac Oldies Oldies 93 7 93 9 WAVC Mio Talk radio The Patriot 94 3 WCMV FM Leland Traverse City Silent 94 5 WSBX Mackinaw City Classic Rock 94 5 WSBX 94 9 WKJZ Hillman Alpena 103 3 WQLB also airs on 98 1 FM translator in Alpena proper 95 5 WGFE Glen Arbor Modern Rock The Zone 95 7 WCMB FM Oscoda CMU Public Radio 96 1 WHNN Bay City Classic Hits listenable in the West Branch and Tawas areas 96 3 WLXT Petoskey Adult Contemporary Lite 96 96 7 WLXV Cadillac Hot Adult Contemporary Mix 96 96 7 WRGZ Rogers City 99 3 WATZ 96 9 WWCM Standish CMU Public Radio 97 3 WDEE FM Reed City Big Rapids Oldies Sunny 97 3 97 5 WKLT Kalkaska Traverse City Classic Rock KLT the Rock Station 97 7 WMLQ Manistee Soft Adult Contemporary EZ Listening 97 Coast FM 97 7 WMRX FM Beaverton Oldies Adult Standards Timeless Favourites 98 1 WGFN Glen Arbor Traverse City Classic Rock The Bear 98 5 WUPS Harrison Mount Pleasant Classic Hits 98 5 UPS 98 9 WKLZ Petoskey WKLT 97 5 99 3 WATZ Alpena Country 99 3 WLLS Beulah Silent 99 9 WHAK FM Rogers City Oldies 99 9 The Wave 100 3 WGRY Grayling Country Y100 100 7 WWTH Oscoda Country Thunder Country also airs on 94 1 FM translator in Alpena 100 9 WICV East Jordan Charlevoix 88 7 WIAA 101 1 WQON Roscommon Grayling Adult Contemporary Decades 101 101 5 WMJZ Gaylord Adult Hits Eagle 101 5 101 5 WMTE Manistee Classic Hits Kool 101 5 101 9 WLDR Traverse City Country Sunny Country 102 1 WLEW Bad Axe Adult Hits listenable on the Lake Huron west shore up to Harrisville 102 7 WMOM Ludington Pentwater Top 40 Always Listen to your Mom 102 9 WMKC St Ignace Country 102 9 Big Country Hits 103 3 WQLB Tawas City Classic Hits Hits FM 103 5 WTCM FM Traverse City Country Today s Country Music 103 9 WCMW Harbor Springs CMU Public Radio 104 3 WRDS LP Roscommon Southern Gospel The Lighthouse 104 7 WKJC Tawas City Country 104 9 WAIR Lake City Cadillac Smile FM 105 1 WGFM Cheboygan 98 1 WGFN 105 5 WSJR Honor Traverse City 106 7 WSRT 105 5 WBMI West Branch Classic Country 105 7 WZTK Alpena news talk and sports 105 9 WKHQ Charlevoix Contemporary Hits 106 KHQ 106 1 WTZM Tawas City 90 5 WPHN 106 3 WWMN Ludington Hot Adult Contemporary The Lakeshore s Hit Music Station 106 7 WSRT Gaylord Adult Contemporary 106 7 You FM also airs on 95 3 FM translator in Petoskey area 107 1 WCKC Cadillac 98 1 WGFN 107 5 WCCW Traverse City Oldies Oldies 107 5 107 7 WHSB Alpena Hot Adult Contemporary 107 7 The Bay 107 9 WCZW Charlevoix Petoskey 107 5 WCCW AM edit WTCM 580 50000 watt day 1100 night directional day and night Talk Traverse City WARD 750 1000 watt day 330 night directional day and night Country with WLDR FM 101 9 Petoskey WMMI 830 1000 day only talk Shepherd WIDG 940 5000 watt day 4 watt night Catholic Talk St Ignace WHAK 960 5000 watt day 137 night Country simulcasting WWTH FM Oscoda Rogers City simulcast of WWTH 100 7 FM WJML 1110 10000 watt day 10 night directional day and night Talk Petoskey WJNL 1210 50000 watt day 2500 critical hours day only Talk with WJML AM 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one of world s toughest races Mlive Mlive Retrieved 4 April 2016 The Weyerhaeuser AuSable River Canoe Marathon is the roughest nonstop canoe race in North America ranked number seven among the world s toughest 100 races by the website 100 peak com The racecourse runs almost the entire length of the AuSable River 120 miles Welcome to Kalkaska Michigan 13 April 2009 Archived from the original on 13 April 2009 SDC 2004 Kalkaska Winterfest Sled Dog Race Sleddogcentral com Jennings p 15 amp 26 Then Again WebChron 1 Dick s Shovel website Andrew J Blackbird 1887 History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language and Personal and Family History of the Author Ypsilantian job printing house Reuben Gold Thwaites ed The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France 1610 1791 French Exhibit Catalog Library Central Michigan State University Oiva W Saarinen 15 June 2013 From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City A Historical Geography of Greater Sudbury Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press pp 48 ISBN 978 1 55458 875 6 Leavelle Tracy Neal 29 November 2011 The Catholic Calumet Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America University of Pennsylvania Press p 27 ISBN 978 0 8122 0704 0 McCutcheon Alicia 2015 08 12 400 years ago Champlain s first European contact with First Nations in Georgian Bay met sound society Manitoulin Expositor Retrieved 2019 08 10 Matthew L M Fletcher 1 January 2012 The Eagle Returns The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians MSU Press pp 17 ISBN 978 1 60917 004 2 2 State of Michigan Fenton William N KONDIARONK Le Rat Dictionary of Canadian Biography c 2000 University of Toronto Universite Laval Web 21 Feb 2012 Onofrio Jan 1 January 1995 Dictionary of Indian Tribes of the Americas American Indian Publishers Inc p 965 ISBN 978 0 937862 28 5 Driven by the Sioux from their Chequamegon Bay base in 1670 they moved next to Michillimackinac where they lived until 1704 then they again resettled near Detroit under French auspices It was from this Detroit village that dissident members of the Turtle clans began moving into the long vacant Ohio country along the Sandusky River valley and plain a b c Alvah Littlefield Sawyer 1911 A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People Its Mining Lumber and Agricultural Industries Volume 1 Lewis Publishing Company pp 128 135 ISBN 978 0 598 48952 4 Annals of Fort Mackinac D H Kelton 1892 1673 or 74 Henry Nouvel Superior of the Otawa Missions takes charge of them Father Philip Pierson becomes pastor of the Huron Louise Phelps Kellogg 1917 Early Narratives of the Northwest 1634 1699 Vol 19 C Scribners s sons p 334 ISBN 978 0 7222 6534 5 Barkwell Lawrence 2016 The Metis Homeland Its Settlements and Communities PDF Winnipeg MB Louis Riel Institute ISBN 978 1 927531 12 9 OCLC 956556384 The original French fort and Jesuit mission were there from about 1671 although there was no French commandant after Lamothe Cadillac left in 1697 as the post was ordered closed in 1696 The Jesuits and several Coureurs de Bois remained there until the Jesuits burned their residence and church in 1705 a b Joseph Scott Mendinghall May 7 1975 National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination St Ignace Mission pdf National Park Service a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help and Accompanying four photos from 1974 32 KB St Ignace Mission Michigan State Housing Development Authority Archived from the original on December 24 2012 Retrieved May 12 2012 a b Fletcher Matthew L M 1 January 2012 The Eagle Returns The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians MSU Press p 17 ISBN 978 1 60917 004 2 Appletons Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events Vol 17 D Appleton 1893 p 114 In 1751 a Jesuit mission was established here but the first actual white settlement took place in 1841 when a sawmill was built Petersen Eugene T High Cliffs Mackinac com Archived from the original on February 13 2007 Retrieved March 4 2007 Slevin Mary McGuire History MackinacIsland org Archived from the original on January 23 2007 Retrieved March 8 2007 Brinkley Alan 2003 American History A Survey 11 ed New York McGraw Hill Higher Education pp 141 173 ISBN 978 0 07 242436 2 Peterson Jacqueline Brown Jennifer S H 2001 The New Peoples Being and Becoming Metis in North America Minnesota Historical Society Press pp 44 45 ISBN 978 0 87351 408 8 In 1804 Mackinac Island was the center of the American fur trade Michilimackinac 300 Mackinac State Historic Parks Mackinacparks com Retrieved 14 November 2018 Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard 1911 The Autobiography of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard Pa pa ma ta be The Swift Walker R R Donnelley amp sons Company pp 10 11 This of course involved annual trips to Mackinaw the headquarters of John Jacob Astor and his colleagues the descent of lake Michigan in open Mackinaw boats a short stop at Chicago and then the rivers and praries of Illinois with few but savages for friends at the outset Widder Keith R 30 April 1999 Battle for the Soul Metis Children Encounter Evangelical Protestants at Mackinaw Mission 1823 1837 East Lansing MSU Press p 33 ISBN 978 0 87013 967 3 Hall Lance L BIA RG75 Inventory Washington D C entries 1 74 freepages genealogy rootsweb ancestry com Retrieved 2019 08 10 The several Government factories operating under the Superintendent of Indian Trade are listed below in the order of their establishment Mackinac Michilimackinac 1808 12 Archived copy Archived from the original on 2018 06 25 Retrieved 2019 04 10 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link War of 1812 Mackinac State Historic Parks Mackinacparks com Physician and Surgeon A Professional Medical Journal Vol 24 J W Keating 1902 p 544 Arnold James R 17 November 2014 Health under Fire Medical Care during America s Wars ABC CLIO p 41 ISBN 978 1 61069 748 4 Man With Hole in Stomach Revolutionized Medicine livescience com 24 April 2013 The Gruesome Medical Breakthrough of Dr William Beaumont on Mackinac Island MyNorth com MyNorth com 18 May 2017 Strang James 1854 Ancient and Modern Michilimackinac 2nd ed Samuel E West p 9 Archived from the original on 22 March 2016 Retrieved 7 April 2016 Virr Dr Richard The Beaver and Other Pelts Masson Manuscripts In Pursuit of Adventure The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company Digital exhibitions amp collections McGill Library McGill University McGill University Retrieved 21 April 2016 As fashion changed in the 1820s silk hats had a very negative impact on the beaver trade but a positive one on beaver populations As a result of its cheapness silk was ubiquitous by the 1840s Thus after a long reign beaver felt was forced to abdicate by the dictates of changing fashion the same ones which propelled it in the 1620s Anderson Terry Lee Hill Peter Jensen 2004 The Not So Wild Wild West Property Rights on the Frontier Stanford California Stanford Economics and Finance an imprint of Stanford University Press p 94 ISBN 978 0 8047 4854 4 Retrieved 21 April 2016 By 1840 the beaver trade was essentially over given the precipitous decline in demand brought on by the shift from beaver hats to silk hats in the 1840s Doerr Erich T 2015 07 09 Straits of Mackinac s Lost Era Recounted in Planisek s New Frontier Entrepreneur Book St Ignace News Archived from the original on 2016 09 21 Retrieved 2019 08 10 between 1820 and 1840 It was an important era as Michigan approached statehood and the Straits area saw most of its business and influence drifting toward Detroit The mid 1800s saw the decline of the Straits of Mackinac as an economic center With the Americans now in control of the entire region the area s international influence and government subsidiaries dried up New industries were slow to replace them as the area proved ill suited to farming and the fur trade died off by 1842 Changing forms of transportation also played a part as the area had no railroads or roads The area did have hope as fishing began to pick up a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link Act of Incorporation for the City of Chicago 1837 Encyclopedia chicagohistory org Mansfield J B ed 1899 History of the Great Lakes Volume I Walter Lewis Brendan Baillod transcription Chicago J H Beers amp Co Retrieved 2023 02 22 via Maritime History of the Great Lakes History and Development of Great Lakes Water Craft Minnesota Historical Society 2008 11 04 Retrieved 2019 08 10 By the 1840s the Erie Canal brought tens of thousands of settlers to Buffalo each year in search of passage to the West Population in cities bordering the upper Lakes reportedly quadrupled in the eight years previous to 1840 as a result of that influx In 1843 Margaret Fuller travelled from Niagara Falls through the Erie Canal to Mackinac Island and on to Chicago and Milwaukee via steamboat and documented it in her 1844 book Summer on the Lakes ALLEN R C MARTIN HELEN M A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF MICHIGAN 1837 to 1872 PDF michigan gov Article originally printed in Michigan History Magazine Vol VI 1922 No 44 Retrieved 25 March 2016 The coast was only roughly charted the northern two thirds of the State was an unsurveyed wilderness including all of the Northern Peninsula and practically nothing was known of its interior into which very few white men had ever penetrated ALLEN R C MARTIN HELEN M A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF MICHIGAN 1837 to 1872 PDF michigan gov Article originally printed in Michigan History Magazine Vol VI 1922 No 44 Retrieved 25 March 2016 This plan provided for geological topographical zoological and botanical departments each in charge of a specialist under the direction of the State Geologist Poole Benjamin 1837 Survey of a Road Route from Saginaw to Mackinac Map Scale not given Washington Benjamin Poole M T 25 Congress 2 Session Doc no 234 Retrieved June 14 2012 via Michigan State University Map Library Vogel Virgil J 1967 The Missionary as Acculturation Agent Peter Dougherty and the Indians of Grand Traverse PDF Michigan History 52 3 185 201 Retrieved 14 December 2016 Beaver Island Michilimackinac Archived from the original on 2016 03 22 Retrieved 2016 04 07 A Strangite Time BackStory with the American History Guys Archived from the original on 2015 07 22 Retrieved 2015 08 03 United States Coast Guard USCG 2011 U S Lifesaving Service History USCG Retrieved May 3 2011 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain Michigan in the 1840s Archived from the original on 2015 09 05 Retrieved 2015 08 03 Archived copy Archived from the original on 2016 03 04 Retrieved 2015 08 03 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Archived copy Archived from the original on 2015 10 29 Retrieved 2015 08 03 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Archived copy Archived from the original on 2016 03 05 Retrieved 2015 08 03 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Old Historical City County and State Maps of Michigan mapgeeks org INDIAN AFFAIRS LAWS AND TREATIES Vol 2 Treaties Archived from the original on 2006 07 10 Retrieved 2006 06 13 Indians of Michigan Michigan Family History Network 2010 01 01 Retrieved 2019 08 10 Still further progress was made in the same direction by treaty with the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan made on the 31st day of July 1855 By this treaty the United States withdraws from sale certain townships of the State of Michigan and assigns to each one of some twenty bands into which the Indians are divided the particular townships in which its members may select land The United States agree to give to each Ottawa and Chippewa Indian being the head of a family eighty acres of land to each single person over twenty one years of age forty acres to each family of orphan children under twenty one years of age containing two or more persons eight acres and to each single orphan child under twenty one years of age forty acres and each beneficiary is to select his land in the tract reserved for the band to which he belonged On such selection being made each was at liberty to go into possession of the land selected by him and was to receive a certificate therefore but he could not assign his interest secured thereby At the end of ten years he was entitled to receive a patent therefore in the usual form but still the president might in his discretion order the patent to be issued at an earlier date or to be longer withheld when it was proved that the welfare of the holder of the certificate would be promoted thereby The treaty also provides that the portion of the land so described and set apart which shall not be selected by the Indians within five years shall remain the property of the United States and may be sold like other public lands except that the exclusive right to become purchasers within the next five years was reserved to the Indians In consideration of these provisions of the treaty and the payment of 538 400 in manner therein specified the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians release the United States from all liability on account of former treaty stipulations and receive them in lieu and satisfaction of all claims legal and equitable on the part of said Indians jointly and severally for land money or other thing guaranteed to them or either of them by previous treaties And by the fifth article of the treaty the tribal organization of said Ottawa and Chippewa Indians is dissolved except so far as is necessary to carry out the provisions of said treaty and all future matters of business are to be transacted not with the entire tribe but with those only who are interested in the subject matter and the payments which are to be in money by the terms of the treaty are to be paid not to the tribe as such but to the individual Indians of these several bands per capita Shannon McRae 2006 Manistee County Arcadia Publishing p 9 ISBN 978 0 7385 4124 2 The Homestead act of 1863 drew another type of settler to northern Michigan Any person over 21 who headed a household who could successfully build a dwelling clear and farm at least five acres on a 160 acre parcel of land for five years could claim the property Helen Hornbeck Tanner Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History Norman University of Oklahoma Press 1987 p 165 Friday Matthew J 2010 The Inland Water Route Charleston SC Chicago Illinois Portsmouth NH San Francisco CA Arcadia Publishing p 8 ISBN 978 0 7385 7734 0 Retrieved 25 April 2016 The small settlement once dubbed Bear River was renamed Petoskey in 1873 in honor of Native American chief Ignatius Pet o sega 3 In the fall of 1872 the Village of Otsego Lake was established and the railroad reached the Otsego Lake area about this same time Friday Matthew J 17 May 2010 The Inland Water Route Arcadia Publishing p 14 ISBN 978 1 4396 2440 1 The railroad arrived in Cheboygan in 1881 prior to this seasonal navigation provided the only real link to places further south Village of Wolverine Village of Wolverine History villageofwolverine com Retrieved 14 November 2018 Schaetzl Dr Randall J GEO 333 Geography of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region Michigan State University Geography text Michigan State University Geography department Retrieved 21 April 2016 Cabot James L 1998 01 17 Lumberman Stanchfield left Ludington in 1883 Ludington Daily News p 8 Retrieved 2019 08 10 he was a sawmill owner until the lumber market crash of 1877 Roybal R James 17 September 2013 Beneath the Wings of Geronimo s Spirit Haskay Bay Nay Ntay Xlibris Corporation p 258 ISBN 978 1 4836 8756 8 Further trouble came in July 1877 in the form of a crash in the market for lumber resulting in the bankruptcy of several leading Michigan lumbering concerns Lumber Industry Encyclopedia of American History Answers Corporation 2006 ANDERSON LORAINE Mar 17 2013 Beaver Island has strong Gaelic roots Traverse City Record Eagle Record Eagle com Retrieved 29 April 2016 By 1881 Beaver Island had become the largest supplier of fresh water fish in the United States because of the control Irish fishermen had over the rich fishing grounds An Overview of Beaver Island s History Beaver Island Net Beaver Beacon Beaver Island s Magazine since 1955 Retrieved 29 April 2016 Ward Henry 1896 01 08 A Biological Examination of Lake Michigan in the Traverse Bay Region Studies from the Zoological Laboratory The University of Nebraska Paper 14 Retrieved 29 April 2016 Fuller E 2014 The Passenger Pigeon Princeton and Oxford Princeton University Press ISBN 978 0 691 16295 9 History of Iosco County ioscomuseum org Archived from the original on 17 April 2016 Retrieved 22 April 2016 By 1857 a mill and dock had been built a general store building had been erected dwellings for the pioneers had been built the river had been cleaned out to permit logs to float down to the mill a b Dennis Jerry Nov 22 2013 A Place on the Water An Angler s Reflections on Home Diversion Books ISBN 978 1 940941 12 7 Retrieved 22 April 2016 Leet A B Hughart W O 1882 Guide to the Health Pleasure Game and Fishing Resorts of Northern Michigan reached by the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Chicago J M W Jones Stationary and Printing Co Retrieved 22 April 2016 Northrup A Judd 1880 Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks and Grayling Fishing in Northern Michigan A record of Summer Vacations in the Wilderness Syracuse NY Davis Bardeen amp Co Publishers pp 279 302 Leet A B Hughart W O 1882 Guide to the Health Pleasure Game and Fishing Resorts of Northern Michigan reached by the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Chicago J M W Jones Stationary and Printing Co p 18 Retrieved 22 April 2016 HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY MICHIGAN Chicago Waterman Watkins amp Co 1882 p 219 Retrieved 22 April 2016 Mcdonald Marshall 1894 Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission Volume 13 1893 Washington Government Printing Office United States Fish Commission p 202 Retrieved 22 April 2016 Borgelt Bryon May 2009 Flies Only Early Sport Fishing Conservation on Michigan s Au Sable River pp 115 122 ISBN 978 1 109 21024 8 Retrieved 22 April 2016 UMI number 3361957 Fuller Pam Cannister Matt Neilson Matt Thymallus arcticus Pallas 1776 US Geological Survey Retrieved 22 April 2016 Formerly in Great Lakes basin Michigan with map showing Northern Michigan highlighted Michigan Grayling Only a Memory Michigan Department of Natural Resources Retrieved 22 April 2016 Borgelt Bryon 2009 Flies only early sportfishing conservation on Michigan s Au Sable River University of Toledo Theses and Dissertations Paper 1042 ii By the 1890s the grayling were all but gone due in part to over fishing commercial lumbering and the introduction of non native brook trout Sparhawk William Norwood Brush Warren David 1929 The Economic Aspects of Forest Destruction in Northern Michigan U S Department of Agriculture p 8 As early as 1885 depletion of the accessible pine began to be noticed even in the northern part of the lower peninsula Quinlan Maria Lumbering in Michigan PDF seekingmichigan org Michigan Historical Museum Retrieved 25 April 2016 In 1889 the year of greatest lumber production Michigan produced approximately 5 9 Billion board feet Sparhawk William Norwood Brush Warren David 1929 The Economic Aspects of Forest Destruction in Northern Michigan Washington DC U S Department of Agriculture p 9 Retrieved 22 April 2016 Michigan Central Railroad Wolverine Depot Detroit The History and Future of the Motor City Jun 2011 Retrieved 2019 08 10 By the mid to late 1890s very much of the white pine in Michigan had been cut and the railroads lacked for traffic The Michigan Central the Grand Rapids and Indiana and the Detroit and Mackinac began promoting northern Michigan as a summer vacation destination in hopes of generating revenue from passengers Quinlan Maria Lumbering in Michigan PDF seekingmichigan org Michigan Historical Museum Retrieved 25 April 2016 Lumber Companies vigorously promoted the former forests as good farmland but experience soon proved that this was not the case WAITING FOR THE MORNING TRAIN An American Boyhood by Bruce Catton Kirkus Reviews kirkusreviews com hostmaster 15 October 2016 Articles Road Trips amp Itineraries michigan org Archived copy Archived from the original on 2016 05 05 Retrieved 2016 04 05 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link The Federal Bureau of Recreation conducted a survey of Michigan s coastline for possible State Parks in 1956 and designated Lighthouse Point as part of its proposed Poe Reef State Park Site In 1958 the Michigan Department of Natural Resources built the Duncan Bay State Forest Campground on thirteen acres at Duncan Bay Beach all of which was combined to become the current 1 200 acre Cheboygan State Park in 1962 Terrypepper com Authority Grayling Recreation Hanson Hills Recreation Area Grayling Recreation Authority Home University Center at Northwestern Michigan College Michigan Labor Market Information Mi Fast Facts HOME See also Economy of Detroit and Economy of Chicago Perry Ron Producing Fruit for the Home PDF Horticulture Department Michigan State University Archived from the original PDF on 11 August 2015 Retrieved 4 May 2016 Most MI fruit sites Zone 5 20 o F to 10 o F to 6 10 o F to 0 o F Greene Jay 2013 03 29 Hydraulic fracturing in Michigan Waiting for the boom Crane s Detroit business Retrieved 6 May 2016 other experts say it is only a matter of time before Michigan s Antrim Shale gas field reserves estimated to be the 15th largest in the nation will be tapped in greater numbers Payette Peter October 28 2014 Drilling for oil and gas is on the decline in Michigan Michigan Radio Retrieved 6 May 2016 Drilling activity peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s when oil and gas companies went after natural gas in a layer of the earth called the Antrim Shale Is Michigan the Next State to See Widespread Shale Drilling Marcellus Drilling News 2009 09 03 Retrieved 2019 08 10 it s often referred to as the Utica Collingwood The Collingwood is two miles or more below the surface Encana and others have been testing the Utica Collingwood in Michigan Michigan Shale Great Lakes Energy Forum 2016 10 19 Archived from the original on 2016 10 19 Retrieved 2019 08 10 The largest emerging oil and gas field in Michigan is the Utica Collingwood Shale located between 10 000 and 12 000 feet below the surface of northern Michigan Michigan Basin Geology Makes Michigan a Great Oil and Gas State Drillinginfo 2014 11 13 Retrieved 2019 08 10 Encana recently transferred all of its Michigan Collingwood holdings rumored to be in excess of 100 000 acres to Marathon Some say the reason Encana left is because they couldn t figure out the Collingwood however I suspect it has more to do with the 6 billion investment in the Permian basin and the focus to earn a return on that investment The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has auctioned 120 000 acres October 29th in some of the prime Collingwood acreage in northern Michigan Pellston Regional Airport Serving Northern Michigan Emmet County Pellston Airport Beaver Island Ferry Schedules Charity Island ferry service Archived from the original on 2016 04 27 Robert E Johnston Plaunt Transportation Inc Ferry Service to Bois Blanc Island State Transportation Map Map 1 in 15 mi 1 cm 9 km Michigan Department of Transportation 2011 E8 J13 Detroit and Mackinac Railway pictures and history Archived from the original on 2016 01 13 Michigan Railroad history for Alpena Archived from the original on 2013 07 24 Drury George H 1994 The Historical Guide to North American Railroads Histories Figures and Features of more than 160 Railroads Abandoned or Merged since 1930 Waukesha Wisconsin Kalmbach Publishing pp 19 20 ISBN 978 0 89024 072 4 DNRE confirms Michigan cougar sighting Themorningsun com Archived from the original on 2012 03 02 Retrieved 2010 10 25 SaveTheCougar Org The Michigan Cougar Conservation Effort please scroll down Archived from the original on 2012 03 19 Retrieved 2010 10 25 Michigan Wildlife Conservancy 1 29 2009 Lawmakers Look At Cougar Evidence Archived 2011 07 27 at the Wayback Machine Michiganbirds org 10 April 2006 Archived from the original on 10 April 2006 Northern Michigan Birding 19 June 2006 Archived from the original on 19 June 2006 Michigan Department of Natural Resources Kirtland s Warbler Populations Continue to Grow Archived from the original on 2007 12 23 Kirtland Warbler Festival and links Archived from the original on 2008 01 02 Michigan IBA Program Michigan Important Bird Areas Program Student Groups White Pine Press Northwestern Michigan College www nmc edu Further reading edit Bogue Margaret 1985 Around the Shores of Lake Michigan A Guide to Historic Sites Madison WI University of Wisconsin Press ISBN 978 0 299 10004 9 Cappel Constance ed 2006 Odawa Language and Legends Andrew J Blackbird and Raymond Kiogima Philadelphia Xlibris ISBN 978 1 59926 920 7 self published source 2007 The Smallpox Genocide of the Odawa Tribe at L Arbre Croche 1763 The History of a Native American People Lewiston NY The Edwin Mellen Press ISBN 978 0 7734 5220 6 McRae Shannon 2003 Manistee County Images of America Charleston SC Arcadia Publishing ISBN 978 0 7385 4124 2 Ruchhoft Robert H 1991 Exploring North Manitou South Manitou High and Garden Islands of the Lake Michigan Archipelago Cincinnati OH Pucelle Press ISBN 978 0 940029 02 6 Russell Curran N Baer Dona Degen 1954 The Lumberman s Legacy Manistee MI Manistee County Historical Society OCLC 1213029 Wood Mable C Ingells Douglas J 1962 Scooterville U S A Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans OCLC 2556377 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Northern Michigan Clarke Historical Library Central Michigan University bibliographies organized by county and region Great Lakes Coast Watch Info Michigan detailed information on 630 cities Pure Michigan Michigan s Official Travel and Tourism Site Archived 2008 01 17 at the Wayback Machine Michigan Historical Markers Northern Michigan culture and community website Harbors hunting resources and more from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources44 45 N 84 45 W 44 750 N 84 750 W 44 750 84 750 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Northern Michigan amp oldid 1185034822, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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