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Seat : Charlevoix Townships:
If you are visiting or want to know more aspects of the county these links may be helpful. Topics: Charlevoix Chamber of Commerce Charlevoix Church of the Nazarene Ernest Hemingway Cottage Walloon Lake Michigan Interactive- Charlevoix Coming soon: History Queries Visit the ALHN
The Michigan ALHN is providing these links to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement of the site by the Michigan ALHN. You are the [Timeout locking counter file] visitor to this page. ©Copyright 2000 By Lesley Moss This page was updated Sunday, July 23, 2000 |
The Michigan American Local History Network is a central web page from which independent web sites containing historical or genealogical content about Michigan or it's counties, are linked.
If you are interested in hosting a Michigan county, please contact Bonnie McVicar-Briggs, Lesley Moss or Sondra Higbee, the State Coordinators for Michigan. We will be happy to help you. We would be happy to have volunteers who prefer to host a township, city or cover a topic in a township too, such as religion, history, cemeteries, occupations, etc. We can easily link your page to the County it falls under.If you want to contribute, please check out the Volunteer FAQ Page. The county was originally called Keskauko, but in 1843 was renamed Charlevoix for Pierre de Charlevoix (1682-1761), a Jesuit missionary who had traveled the Great Lakes seeking passage to the Pacific. In 1847 James Strang, an elder o f the Mormon Church, founded a religious colony on Beaver Island. After his assassination in 1856 the colony dissolved. The county experienced slow growth until the 1870’s with Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad. Lumbering was a major attraction that eventually declined and was replaced by tourism as an important industry. Ernest Hemingway spend many summers in the county as a child which provided material for his short stories. The county has some of the finest skiing in the state. Boyne City hosts a national mushroom picking championship in May. Charlevoix has many attractions with fine beaches on Lake Michigan and Lake Charlevoix and hosts an apple festival in the fall.County links:
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