MANISTEE COUNTY HISTORY
1895
Portrait And Biographical Record Of Northern Michigan Manistee County Biographies - Under Construction |
Bibliography
- Local Book Titles Published Titles pertaining to Manistee County, Michigan. |
Books: Higginson
Book Company County History and Surname Books Available in Reprint Form - commercial website. |
Business Directory
1875-1877-1879-1881 Manistee County |
Biography Transcriptions from the "History of Manistee County, Mason & Oceana Counties, Michigan" published 1882. |
New Brunswick Newspaper Gleanings New! |
Civil
War Soldiers of Manistee County |
Classified
Buyers Guide, Manistee Michigan, 1928 New! This is a "Yellow Pages" type of directory that includes business listings, and some individual business owner names. |
Historic Manistee Churches Background information on Manistee houses of worship from "The Salt City of the Inland Seas," published May, 1899. |
History of
Manistee County, Published 1882 |
Historical
Newspaper Clippings |
History
of Manistee 1899 |
Lumbering, Logging & Forestry Records State Archives of Michigan |
Making
Of America Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. This is a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan and Cornell University. |
Manistee
DAR Lineages |
Manistee
School History |
Manistee in the
Spanish-American War |
Manistee Timeline |
Pardons
Granted By The Governor of The State of Michigan 1851 - 1867 Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Michigan Published 1867 by J.A. Kerr & Co., Printers to the State |
Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 From the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress. |
Pioneer
Reminiscences |
Political
Biographical Sketches From the Manistee Advocate, April 11, 1885 |
Portrait &
Biographical Record of Northern Michigan
1895 |
River
Street Businesses, 1882 - City
of Manistee |
The Sawmill From the Michigan Historical Museum |
S.C.
Overpack's Big Wheels |
Manistee
Surnames from Published Works |
The
Great Fire of 1871 |
The
Matanuska Colony: The New Deal in Alaska "In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt offered 203 families from the hardest-hit areas of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan the chance to start fresh in a new land, in a fertile Alaskan valley with the melodic name Matanuska." This website lists the names of the families - husband & wife, and number of children - and also their previous city of residence. Several of these families were from Manistee County.
Kalliosaari: John, Letta and 1 child (Copemish, MI)
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Township
Histories |
Tugs
and Fleets |
Yearbooks -
1929 and 1938 |
SHIPPING INDUSTRY |
USGenWeb's Downward Bound Great Lakes Shipping genealogy by Pat Hamp. |
Grand Trunk Western Historical Society Railroad and shipping concerns |
Great Lakes Ships Manistee ships, by Marla Hughes |
Great Lakes and Seaway Shipping List of Links Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping online |
Lake Michigan Shipwrecks - The Milwaukee A shipwreck that took the lives of many Manistee men on October 22, 1929. Great Lakes Research and Diving Warehouse |
Manistee and Frankfort Lights Photo tour of Great Lakes lighthouses by William A. Britten. |
The Milwaukee by George Stowers |
Tugs and Fleets From the History of Manistee, Mason & Oceana Counties, Michigan. Published 1882 by H.R. Page & Co., Chicago |
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