Posted on 05/19/2012 3:34:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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And to think I was kicking myself for forgetting to ping ya.
Why do they want to do this? The article doesn’t say.
I grew up near the Michigan ghost town of Stoney Point (Not the one near Monroe) When I was a teenager we used to party back in the old quarry and go 4 wheeling in the hills.
http://genealogytrails.com/mich/jackson/hanovertwp.html
Can you imagine building a dock of any size on Lake Michigan in 2012? We’ve lost our spirit of growth and innovation, thanks to our progressives. They’ve feminized us to the point that we’ll sit back and watch the TSA rub down children and seniors in wheelchairs. At least we’re safe.
Marlborough Cement Factory, MI
The little towns sprung up where the resources they sought were at. My little 150 person burg was considerably larger in the late 1800s due to a railroad that ran through here. My house sits on the spot where the icehouse was. Even my yard is largely underlaid with cobblestones that made it easy to slide blocks of ice from the lake.
Michigan Ghost towns. I know the list is considerably longer than what is listed. I can think of at least a half dozen from my corner of Jackson county alone.
http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/mi/mi.html
Beautiful aerial photo! Thank you!
San Francisco can keep it’s Golden Gate. We’ve got the Mighty Mac!!!
We visited the ghost town of Fayette in Fayette State Park, east and south of Escanaba. I thought its setting on the bay was absolutely gorgeous. The photos I can find of it on the net don’t seem to do it justice.
More than 11,000 people were employed to build the big mack.
http://www.mackinacbridge.org/facts—figures-16/
Began Construction May 7, 1954, Open to traffic November 1, 1957.
That’s an astounding feat in my book.
Did you know that the old car elevator is still in Mackinaw City at the ferry docks from when the car ferry was in operation? My father told me several years ago that it is there, you can see it easiest while driving southbound, off to the east. It looks like it’s two or three stories high. I can’t make it out in the pic you posted, but it would be just off to the left of the bridge in the upper right corner of that photo, on the point of land that sticks out.
I’ve never seen an aerial shot of this before! Pretty cool.
Yeah, it's made of cement, alright. What did they manufacture? *<];-')
Here's a potash plant at Antioch, (now a ghost town) Nebraska: "The Potash Capital of Nebraska". There were several of these in the Sandhills region that were built when Germany cut off trade in the run up to WWI. After the War to End Wars, they all closed down. Easily visible along the highway, east of Alliance...famous for Carhenge.
We saw them on a back-roads trip, and had to do some digging on the Net to finds out what the ruins were.
Is it underwater due to Manbearpig being correct?
Hasn't happened.
But if we wait long enough, it just might (law of hysterical historical avearages).......
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