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Images of America Harbor County by Robert and Rose Anna Mueller 2003 MI
Images of America Harbor County by Robert and Rose Anna Mueller 2003 SC
Soft Cover
Copyright 2003
128 Pages
The eight villages of Southwest Michigan's Harbor Country-Michiana, Grand Beach, New Buffalo, Union Pier, Lakeside, Harbert, Sawyer, and Three Oaks-have evolved from a group of humble frontier communities into a vacation mecca. Just 90 minutes from Chicago, Harbor Country's unspoiled beaches, marinas, antique shops, and shady country lanes have offered a weekend refuge to weary urbanites for years.
The New York Times once called Harbor Country "the Hamptons of the Midwest," perhaps because the area draws Chicago's illuminati to its shores. Yet most of the region's first settlers were lumbermen, farmers, fishermen, and railroad workers, and Harbor Country's rustic, small-town ambience remains as their legacy.
Through nearly 200 vintage photographs, this book documents the history of Harbor Country and its many roles throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Once an aspiring Great Lakes port, then briefly a railroad center, as well as a lumbering community that supplied the timber to build Chicago, Harbor Country is revealed as an area with rich history and everlasting appeal.
Robert and RoseAnna Mueller have spent their summers in Harbor Country for the past 13 years and recently moved to the area full-time. They are also authors of La Grange and La Grange Park, Illinois, another title in Arcadia's Images of America series.
Acknowledgments6
Introduction7
1.New Buffalo11
Wessel Whittaker Goes to War12
2.Union Pier41
Who Was Who in 187342
3.Lakeside51
Lydia Wilkinson,56
Lakeside's Renaissance Woman
4.Three Oaks71
How to Make Featherbone72
5.Harbert85
6.Sawyer93
7.Grand Beach103
Golf at Grand Beach104
8.Michiana123
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