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The Big Picture Book of Mt. Pleasant Michigan
Our town Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, is seen through cameras past and present in this largest ever photo historical review reaching as far back as 1875 to as recently as the summer of 2010. Matching vintage pictures with camera views from the same angle today, local historian and photo history veteran Jack R. Westbrook turns the same concise reporting of his five previous books again to his home town, describing what was there and what the more than 200 locations look like today. In addition to looking at people and businesses of the past and present, Westbrook turns the camera's eye on a number of historical homes and the folks who occupied them. The book is flavored by a local high schooler of...
The Weber Family of Beal City, Michigan
Ben Weber takes the reader on a journey through his family tree from ancient Germany, through 19th century travel to the United States, and thus to Ohio and Michigan, all by water, to his grandfather's settling in Nottawa Township, Isabella County, Michigan. Weber also relates the story of his personal quest for his family history.
Mid-Michigan History 3
For ten years, Jack R. Westbrook has been furnishing local Mt. Pleasant publications with local historical photo articles ranging from the significant to the whimsical. Westbrook has assembled those articles, with relevant pages borrowed from his eight local photo history books and some never before published pages in his photo reviews of the area's past entitled ?Mid-Michigan History 1 & 2'.From extensive histories of Mt. Pleasant's own first radio station (WCEN), Mt. Pleasant schools, funeral homes, movie houses, Mission Road history and the Alma Springs Sanitarium's emergence as Masonic Pathway. Mid-Michigan Counties oil history and the 1931 worst oilfield disaster in history. retired Michigan Oil & Gas News Managing Editor Jack R. Westbrook brings another kaleidoscope of glimpses into the rich heritage of mid-Michigan history and lore in Mid-Michigan History 3.Now he is back with a third volume of entertaining and educational snapshots of center-of-Michigan's past guaranteed to furnish hours of nostalgic pleasure.
Central Michigan University
From a humble 1892 beginning upstairs over a downtown store in the village of Mount Pleasant to the fourth-largest university in the state, Central Michigan Universitys growth is tribute to the determination of visionaries who saw the Lower Michigan crossroads town as a potential home to a world-class learning center. First a private enterprise, then a state school, Central Michigan Normal School and Business College, the school would change names four more times to be known as Central State Teachers College, Central Michigan College of Education, Central Michigan College, and Central Michigan University on the road to making its founders 19th-century dreams a 21st-century reality. With a total enrollment of 27,452, Central Michigan University offers a broad selection of more than 3,000 courses and 25 degrees.
Michigan Oil and Gas
Michigan is commonly recognized as a manufacturing center and for its splendid tourist attractions. Lesser known is Michigans role as a leader in the production of oil and gas. Since the discovery of commercial quantities of oil in Saginaw in 1925, Michigan has grown to become the 12th-largest natural gas and 17th-largest crude oil producer of the 34 states producing oil and gas. Michigans petroleum heritage spans 64 of the states 68 Lower Peninsula counties and has played a role in shielding communities from the financial devastation of the Great Depression, funding acquisition of hundreds of public recreation projects through the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund, and rising to meet environmental challenges through improving technologies. Michigan Oil and Gas documents that heritage with photographs from the Clarke Historical Library Norman X. Lyon and Michigan Oil & Gas News Collections.
Isabella County, 1859 - 2009
An ancient revered gathering and hunting place for Chippewa Indians becomes the modern home to one of the nation's largest Native American tribal-owned casino/resort complexes. A rough-and-tumble timbering center sees Michigan's first lumber millionaire plat a town, dedicating five acres for a county seat. Residents organize a private normal school for teacher training, to become Michigan's fourth-largest university, Central Michigan University. Hardworking immigrants carve farms, villages, and towns from the timbered-out wilderness near the center of the Michigan Lower Peninsula "mitten." From harvesting lumber above the ground to harvesting petroleum below the ground, the area ushers in an oil boom on time to be saved from the financial tribulations of the Great Depression. Incorporated in 1859, during the turbulent times just ahead of the Civil War and birth year of the United States oil industry, the area becomes a modern-day commerce center. This is the saga of Isabella County, told as the county celebrates 150 years of economic and cultural diversity.
Mount Pleasant
Since 1860, Mount Pleasant has been a center for Native American culture, lumbering, agriculture, oil and gas production, collegiate learning, and retail shopping; Mount Pleasant now boasts one of the largest gaming casino resorts in Midwest America.
Mid-Michigan History
For seven years, retired Michigan Oil & Gas News Managing Editor Jack R. Westbrook has been furnishing local Mt. Pleasant publications with local historical photo articles ranging from the significant to the whimsical. Westbrook was a regular monthly contributor to the Mt. Pleasant Monthly Magazine with a full page feature called "The Way We Were." When the Mt. Pleasant Monthly ceased publication, Westbrook began his "Mid-Michigan History" ongoing series of regular features in the Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun daily newspaper. Now Westbrook has assembled those articles, with relevant pages borrowed from his eight local photo history books and some never before published pages in this compact photo review of the Mt. Pleasant area's past. This compact volume is a 134 page volume of entertaining and educational snapshots of the rich heritage of mid-Michigan history and lore, guaranteed to furnish hours of nostalgic pleasure.
Mid-Michigan History 2
From an extensive history of the Mt. Pleasant Sugar Beet Plant to first-ever published photographs of "The most beautiful house in Mt. Pleasant" promised by Enterprise newspaper published John Doughty to his prospective bride as an incentive for her to move to Mt. Pleasant from her high lifestyle in Kentucky, retired Michigan Oil & Gas News Managing Editor Jack R. Westbrook brings you a kaleidoscope of glimpses into the rich heritage of mid-Michigan history and lore in Mid-Michigan History 2 For eight years, Westbrook has been furnishing local Mt. Pleasant publications with local historical photo articles ranging from the significant to the whimsical. Westbrook was a regular monthly contribu...
At Home in Earlier Mt. Pleasant Michigan
Walk with us through the streets of this lumber/oil/university town in the center of Michigan, rooted in the 1855-established Saginaw-Chippewa Indian Reservation. Inside, we will visit the homes of hundreds of those who have come before us and, where possible, see how the structures have changed through the decades. Join author Jack R. Westbrook, whose five previous middle Michigan photo history books have put the spotlight on our area's past, on a photographic journey through the historic core of Mt. Pleasant and meet some of the residents who have added colorful threads to the tapestry of our community's past. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be contributed to the Mt. Pleasant Area Historical Society's History Center Fund dedicated to creating a proposed Mt. Pleasant History Center..
