Schad Block, Ypsilanti

On verso: Ypsilanti Street Scenes, Schad Block Ypsilanti

Lighthouse Presque Isle, Mich.

attached letter: Dear Professor Lorch: At the suggestion of the July 31, 1953 Newsletter of the Michigan Historical Society I am sending you two photoes [sic] of the old lighthouse and adjoining building on Presque Isle, Michigan located on the shore of Huron lake, supposedly the oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes. It is owned by Mr. F. B. Stebbins, 326 N. Capital, Lansing, Michigan. When through using the photos I would appreciate your returning them directly to him. The following information was given to me by Mr. Stebbins: Built in 1840, through a congressional appropriation of $5,000.- in Presque Isle county, described as, "Where a portage of 200 yards would save 4 miles of canoe trip." Jefferson Davis after graduation from West Point, was supposed to have built it. (According to careful historical investigation, this is not true. There is an article about this controversy in some back number of the Michigan History magazine. Mr. Stebbins feels very strongly about his. He prefers the legend, it sounds bigger). Francis Burgoyne Stebbins purchased from his Uncle Bliss Stebbins in 1930, who bought the property in 1930 from General Duffield of Dteoirt [sic], who had purchased it from the government a short time previously. This light-house was abandone [sic] upon the completion of a new lighthouse in 1872, one mile north from the present location. Adjoining house was used as a summer home. Condition restored in 1936. Lighthouse towe [sic] walls 3 feet thick with handhewn circular stone steps to the top. Signed, Lee H. Gregory

Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald

From "A Remembrance of Governor Fitzgerald of Grand Ledge" by Frank M. Fitzgerald (Grand Ledge Area Historical Society, Grand Ledge MI 1985)

Annals of the town of Keene, from its first settlement, in 1734, to the year 1790...

First published in the Collections of the New Hampshire historical society.

Description of the province of New Sweden. Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America.

Published also in v. 3 [pt. 1] of the Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

The records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington, Del., from 1697 to 1773 /

Marriage index (males)--Marriage index (females)--Births and baptisms.--Burials.--General index.--Errata.

Washington's farewell address to the people of the United States of America.

Preface signed: J.L. [i.e. James Lenox]

Wisconsin magazine of history.

Summer issue for <2002> includes "Review supplement".

Applied history /

Vol. 3 has title: Statute law-making in Iowa; v. 4: County government and administration in Iowa; v. 5-6: Municipal government and administration in Iowa.

The story of Essex County,

Vols. 1-2 include bibliographies; v. 3-4 contain biographical material.

Conway through the years and whither.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the town of Waitsfield, Vermont, 1782-1908 : with family genealogies /

Includes index.

"My grandmothers" and other tales of Old Woodstock,

Cover title.

Die Handelsbeziehungen Kaiser Friedrichs II zu den Seestädten Venedig, Pisa, Genua /

Thesis (doctoral)--Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, 1902.

Monograph Series

Mode of access: Internet.