Corduroy road, Coldwater, Mich.

description accompanying photograph: accession to Herbert H. Bartlett Ann Arbor. Original picture from which this negative and print were made is in Mr. Bartlett's possession. Corduroy road in Coldwater, Mich., on Sauk Trail, extended about 200 ft.; oak logs are pictured, about 18" in diameter, about 6' long; picture taken in 1911; Bert Davis, workman in picture; location is on East Chicago St., between Daugherty & Sprague Sts. in front of Morris Clarke residence.

Farwell 1908 Looking north-west from Watertower

verso: Delaval Separators. Fuller & Harris Hardware

Stump puller in action four miles west of Gladwin, Michigan, September, 1914

description accompanying photograph: photos of stump puller made September 1914. Location: some four miles west of Gladwin, Mich. Undersigned was a member of this stumping crew at that time. signed: C. Ernest Robison 402 N. Broadway Spencerville, Ohio 45887

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

West Engineering Building

University of Michigan

Map of the Huron River Valley from Surveys made in 1908 by G. S. Williams. 5126 [Belleville West]

Belleville West, 1908: Map of the Huron River Valley

Map of the Huron River Valley from Surveys made in 1908 by G. S. Williams. 5124 [Rawsonville West]

Rawsonville West, 1908: Map of the Huron River Valley

Map of the Huron River Valley from Surveys made in 1908-1909 by G. S. Williams. 5115 [Dexter West]

Dexter West, 1908: Map of the Huron River Valley [Scanned in two parts and combined using PhotoShop CS6 PhotoMerge command]