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View ArticleDiscovery Channel :: News - Archaeology :: Study: Comet Wiped Out First...
May 30, 2007 — A large extraterrestrial object exploded over the heads of the first Americans about 13,000 years ago, wiping them out and making big mammals and other prehistoric creatures disappear,...
View ArticleNorth American Comet Catastrophe 10,900 BC Part 1
This may be the end of a view of the populating of the Americas. Now, the truth of this event from outer space has to be established and the truth of whether that was an end to the Clovis people now...
View ArticleWenonah Park with a view of the Sage Mill
This view from Wenonah Park to the West Side must come from after 1908. The Sage Mill buildings can still be seen in the background eventhough the mill had closed in 1892.
View ArticleSaginaw Valley Logging
Logs at Red KegThis is what twenty-five mill feet of logs looks like
View ArticleMHAL - Bay
MHAL - Bay This list of the newspapers published in Bay City is extensive. Many papers are listed but no library source to read them is given. This makes the site a good place to start but with a...
View Article1780 British warship found in Lake Ontario - Science- msnbc.com
1780 British warship found in Lake Ontario Intact 80-foot sloop is oldest ever found in the Great Lakes This image shows the decoratively carved scroll bow stem of the sunken 228-year-old British...
View ArticleShipwreck Explorers Discover HMS Ontario - 1780 British Warship in Lake...
Shipwreck Explorers Discover HMS Ontario - 1780 British Warship in Lake Ontario - Shipwreck WorldThe Lakes give up their ownThe HMS Ontario is the type of wreck that appears only in movies but this...
View ArticleLogs from the 1870's and 1880's on the Cass River
Facebook | My Photos - Mobile UploadsThis is a typical log from Michigan's logging era that was recently found submerged in the Cass River near Vassar, Michigan. The Vassar Historical Society has built...
View ArticleHistory of Fort Recovery
History of Fort Recovery (Editor’s Note: The excerpt was taken from "The Battle on the Banks of the Wabash -- The Battle of Fort Recovery 1794" written by Fort Recovery’s elementary principal Nancy...
View ArticleSeaman's Cemetery looked like This
Seaman's Cemetary in 2005The friends of Pine Ridge have been doing a great job of correcting situations like this that existed just three years ago in Pine Ridge Cemetery. Much of the brush has been...
View ArticleWashington Theater Program for Oct.29, 1911
This is a program from the Washington Theater located on Washington and Sixth Street in Bay City Michigan. It is for October 29, 1911. Picasa Web Albums - SayHiThere - Washington Th... - scan0004.jpg...
View ArticleCLEWS Your Home for Historic True Crime: Michigan and the Death Penalty—A...
Between the Simmons and the Fitzpatrick cases, Michiganders developed a sour taste for the death penalty, and in 1847, Michigan became the first state in the Union--indeed, by some accounts, the...
View ArticleTrolley to Depart Bay City Scene
It is very unfortunate that the difficult economic situation in public transportation has spilled over into Bay City's historical tours. Hundreds of people have learned about Bay City architecture and...
View ArticleDetroit News Article on Defoe Shipbuilding
The Bay City boy who became a major shipbuilderBy Vivian M. Baulch / The Detroit News Online Harry J. Defoe was born in Bay City Sept. 2, 1875, son of a Great Lakes sailor, Joseph DeFoe, and...
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Eric Jylha and the Bay County Historical SocietyEric has been publishing newsletters on historical topics and items of interest for the community for the last few months. I find them very useful for...
View ArticleJames O'Roarke
James J. O'Roarke was a hero of the South Pacific who was killed by friendly fire on Bougainville after winning a Silver Star on Guadalcanal. Part of his story is told in a book called Orchids in the...
View ArticleToxic ash seepage discovered at Consumer’s Energy dump from Karn-Weadock plant.
In Bay City, where the state’s largest electricity provider, Consumer’s Power, has its Karn-Weadock coal-fired plant, and where it has applied to build an additional coal power plant, seepage from an...
View ArticleMaking Local History
Mary Lydia Doe was a key figure in the suffrage movement in Michigan from 1880 to 1900. She lived at 922 N. Monroe in Bay City close to May Stocking Knaggs, who had a house not more than a few blocks...
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