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Michigan

Great Lakes lighthouses.  Some excellent photos and short descriptions of lighthouses on all of the Great Lakes:  Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario.  [ccr][http://lighthousegetaway.com/lights/g_lakes.html

Michigan mining history.  Many photos of mining structures from iron, copper, other mines in the Upper Peninsula.  [ccr]
http://www.mg.mtu.edu/mining/mining/shaft0.htm

Copper country history.  Many photos and stories of the Copper Range Railroad and its region in the Upper Peninsula, but no maps.  [ccr]
http://www.copperrange.org/main.htm

Michigan Historical Markers.  A collection of over 1500 photos, with accompanying descriptions, of historic sites, buildings, and people.  Searchable by county or by topic.  Topics range from Black History, Bridges, and Businesses, to Schools, Theatres, and Transportation.  Assembled by Jim Brennan.   [ccr]
http://www.michmarkers.com/

Panoramic view from Sleeping Bear Dunes

Visualizing the Great Lakes.  Great images of a many different activities along the Great Lakes, from the Environmental Protection Agency.  Organized by topic, not by location.  [ccr]
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/image/

Virtual Jackson.  Many postcard images of Jackson's past.  No map as yet.  [ccr]
http://home.att.net/~redsmith/index.html 

Interactive Downtown Albion.   A clever design allows the user to click on a "map" list of addresses or on a panaramic photo of downtown buildings.  The click brings information on the building and its history.  Included are a number of interesting historical photographs.   [ccr]
http://www.forks.org/tour/downtown/west.htm

Battle Creek in 1940.  An amazing collection of photos of just about every 1940 residential and commercial building in Battle Creek indexed by street, from the Willard Library. [ccr]http://www2.willard.lib.mi.us/streets/index.htm#r

Changing downtown Grand Rapids.  A history of downtown through the twentieth century, indexed by decade, with photos.  [ccr]
http://www.grpl.org/perl/gallery/display.pl

History of the Lakeside Inn.  Although this is a promotional site for the Current Lakeside Inn Resort, its neat photos and text tell an interesting history of the development of the inn, local history of the Whitehall area, and Lake Michigan Steamers that brought tourists from Chicago.  [ccr]
http://www.lakesideinn.net/lakesideinnstory/lakesidestory.shtml

Creeks in the Kalamazoo River watershed.  Map-based photo tours of Arcadia, Axtell, West Fork Portage, and Portage Creeks, from the Portage Creek/Arcadia Creek Watershed Management Planning Project.  [ccr]
http://www.kalamazooriver.net/pa319new/arcadia/arcadia.htm

 


 


Bonanza Falls

Glazier building and clock tower

Glen Arbor Roller Mills

45/47 Aldrich St. in Battle Creek circa 1940

Night view of Grand Rapids