History in Michigan

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

This tiny island bears the name of Civil War veteran, fisherman, and local celebrity Richard Bassett.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

This former county courthouse was originally an opulent hotel and entertainment venue.

The final resting place of a prominent Chippewa chief and several Native American children.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

A series of 33 stone markers maps an ancient 55-mile transportation route.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

A lonely stone-sided terminal stands next to a grass airstrip on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.