Shingleton - Michigan's Upper Peninsula

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Train</a></font></b><br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="100%" height=3 alt="-"><br> <h1>SHINGLETON</h1> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="30" height=8 alt="-"></center></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="63%">  <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8 border=0> <tr> <td align="left">  <font face="Georgia"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=6 alt="-"><br> <center> <table cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=419> <tr> <td> <img src="http://hunts-upguide.com/photos/277.gif" width=419 height=114 alt="Shingleton" border=0> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-2"> <b>Where M-94 breaks off from 28 and heads south from Shingleton to Manistique is the last curve before the 34 miles of the “Seney Stretch,” Michigan’s flattest highway, across the Great Manistique Swamp.</b> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center><p> This little village is where M-94 intersects with M-28 at the west end of the <b>Seney Stretch. </b>That arrow-straight 30 miles across flat swampland may be Michigan's most boring highway. <br><br>But there's more than meets the eye, as James Carter of Marquette has demonstrated in his 2005 book about the history of this area<b>, <i>The Seney Stretch</i>.</b> It details the histories of places that have now totally vanished, like Driggs, and the tourist cabins at Star Siding, and the 20,000-acre Bullock Ranch, developed by Chicago tractor manufacturer Henry Bullock. It lasted from around 1912 into the Great Depression. One community, New Seney, a land scheme aimed to sell off swampland to gullible downstaters, never existed at all except on plat maps.<br><br>The town Shingleton was named for an old shingle mill from the 1880s. Bell Timber just south of downtown Shingleton logs red pine from nearby forests and makes them into telephone and utility poles some 50 feet long. <br><br>Other local residents work at <b>Camp Cusino,</b> a mile west of town on M-28 at Percy Road. Unlike many Upper Peninsula prisons which house some of the state's most dangerous criminals, Cusino is a minimum-security state prison camp. It's supposed to house prisoners with non-violent offenses such as writing bad checks. Nonetheless, in the 1990s overcrowding in the prison system forced Camp Cusino to take more violent prisoners, unbeknownst to area residents. One violent prisoner escaped, invaded a home, killed the resident, and stole a car. After that, concertina wire was added to camp fences. <i>(—March, 2008)</i> <br clear="all"> <hr> <center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center> <hr> <p align="right"><a href="pictured_rocks_munising_au_train.html" target="_top">Back to Pictured Rocks/Munising/Au Train</a></p> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="37%" valign="top"> <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8 border=0> <tr> <td height="4" width="37%">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=1 alt="-"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="center" bgcolor="#C7302D" width="37%">  <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"> <b> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> <font size="-1"> SHINGLETON<br> RESTAURANTS,<br> LODGINGS<br> & CAMPGROUNDS </font> <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=6 alt="-"><br> <font size="-2">These are our choices, not ads.</font><br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> </b> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=top bgcolor="#FFE09B" width="37%">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>SHINGLETON<br>RESTAURANTS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> <a name="e603"><b>WOODLANDS RESTAURANT</b></a><br> (906) 452-6452 <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> Many locals think this place on M-28 is a great breakfast spot, and a great place for a good, fresh-made hamburger. In season the front parking is full. <br> New owners Tom and Pam Gould continue to offer good prices, homemade pies, and lunch specials that appeal to a year-round clientele. Customers appreciate that it's quiet enough to talk while enjoying beer or wine with a meal. Lunches typically range from $6 to $8, dinners mostly $9 to $12. Nightly specials are the Friday fish fry, Saturday steak, and Sunday Mexican. Lots of visitor information is on hand here, too. On snowmobile trail. <I>(—April, 2008)</i> <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> <i>E12534 M-28, north side of road, half a block east of M-94 intersection. Open daily 8 to 8. Call for holiday hours. Wheelchair accessible. Family friendly. Full bar.</i> <p> </font> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CDCCAD" valign="top"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>SHINGLETON<br>LODGINGS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> </font> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#B6DBA4" valign="top"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>SHINGLETON<br>CAMPGROUNDS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> </font> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=5 align="center">  <br> <center> <font size="+1" color="#454545" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">Copyright © 1997-2007 Midwestern Guides</font> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>