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Hunts' Guide to Michigan's UPPER PENINSULA
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JUST OUT!
A new edition of Hunts' Mapguide to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Over 300 entries, all conveniently located on maps and chosen because we think they are the coolest things to do in the U.P. (No ad tie-ins!) Great choices for restaurants, hikes, shops, adventures, museums, boat trips, waterfalls, vistas, road trips, and much more!
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MANISTIQUE
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Downtown Manistique. Downtown is friendly, functional, and architecturally quite simple, despite Manistique's lumber town heritage. There's a most unusual Latin American import shop, a used paperback bookstore, and a large antique shop with vintage clothing ...
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East Breakwater Light and Manistique Boardwalk. A scenic, hardened two-mile walkway with picnic areas goes along the Lake Michigan shore. The beach alternates between sandy and rocky, in places backed by birches and cedars ...
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Mackinaw Trail Tasting Room and Winery. Tasting room of an award-winning U.P. winery ...
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Water Tower and "Siphon Bridge". Manistique's 200-foot 1920s neoclassical brick water tower is the town's defining landmark. It's next to the river and what was the famous "siphon bridge," below water level. ...
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Imogen Herbert Historical Museum. Lots of curious stuff in this little museum — a quilt made of neckties, a lampshade — and good photos of the many facets of Chicago Lumber, the company that once owned much of the town. In back there's a cabin once part of an 1890s agricultural commune. ...
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Traders' Point. Two pleasant shops: a café/bookstore and antiques. The outdoor eating area looks across the Manistique River to the marina. ...
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Rogers Park. This is the best Lake Michigan beach in the area-pure sand, free of the limestone cobbles along much of the shoreline. Also a picnic area ...
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Kewadin Casino, Manistique. One of the smaller U.P. Indian-run casinos, the Kewadin here has 2 blackjack tables and one roulette table, a poker room, and 80 slots. Free drinks while gaming ...
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Imogen Herbert Historical Museum
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The Schoolcraft County Historical Society occupies three interesting buildings in and around the water tower. In the elegant water tower interior, now restored, are changing exhibits and photos, ads, and scrapbooks of local businesses, streetscapes, and scenes. related to local businesses. Crisp, clear photos show the Chicago Lumber Company and its subsidiary businesses which helped Manistique survive after the pines were cutover. Advertising memorabilia show, among other things, that Winkelman's, the onetime Detroit women's wear store, got its start in Manistique.
The small, tin-sided house was built for the mother-in-law of the local pharmacist. (Town planners today espouse the idea of such houses for older people in neighborhoods of larger homes, but it's hard getting zoning for them.) This house was erected toward the back of the pharmacist's side yard. Later it was moved.
Historical society members have tried to furnish the little house as it would have been when occupied, from 1910 to 1925. Now that a professional conservator is on the society's board, its vulnerable textiles and other artifacts are displayed infrequently.
The log house in back houses also special exhibits. It was moved from the Hiawatha Colony, a communal agricultural colony founded in the 1890s by a socialist. The colony developed around a core of disgruntled Civil War veterans who had joined Coxey's Army and marched on Washington to claim benefits. The colonists were interrelated. Some 225 of them lived 13 miles north of town in Hiawatha Township until the experiment broke up in 1896. Most of the buildings were large, shared spaces. This cabin belonged to two brothers who refused to move into group quarters. Other colonists burned the first cabin, but they were ordered by the government to rebuild it.
Enlarged with a new contingent of transplant retirees, the historical society holds a festive Pioneer Day with music, crafts, and a lumberjack breakfast on the fourth Saturday of June.
M-94/Deer St., just west of the water tower and bridge. Open Tues-Sat 12-4 from last Sat. in June thru Sat. of Labor Day weekend. Donations appreciated. Handicap accessible: cabin. Museum: one step in each of 3 places. No access to second floor.
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