Lansing is Dry!
“Awful Two Year Drouth Hits Ingham County!”
…so read the headline of the April 5, 1910 State Republican. The Republican reported that fifty-two Ingham County saloons would be out of business for at least two years.
Archive for May, 2010
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was criticized at the time for freeing only the slaves over which the Union had no power.
Boom and Bust in the U.P.
Read about the railroad that was built but never used.
Toledo, Michigan?
Today, Michigan and Ohio are often rivals in the “world of sports.” It seems silly, though, to imagine Wolverines and Buckeyes engaged in an actual war. Yet, this – or something like it – actually occurred in 1835.
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