The Michigan Historymobile
The Michigan Historical Commission launched its “Historymobile” in 1964. This fifty-four foot long “museum on wheels” traveled to Michigan communities for the next ten or so years.
Archive for April, 2009
Traveling Through Time
I do like some markers more than others for different reasons: the topic, the way the marker is written, and the research/writing process for that particular subject. Here are a few that fit under the “favorite heading” and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Sam Knapp’s Luck
The archaeological discovery that saved America’s first great mineral boom. Prospectors and adventurers, many knowing little of the geology, topography or climate of the region flocked to the Copper Country.…
Thank God for Michigan–The Project
In 2007, the Archives of Michigan was awarded a National Historical Publication and Records Commission (NHPRC) Digitizing Historical Records grant. The project, named, “Thank God for Michigan” set the ambitious task of digitizing every government-related Civil War record in the Archives collection (about 100,000 pages).
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