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Scans of Commercial Record newspaper clippings of visitors describing their stays and impressions of Saugatuck and/or Douglas. Many descriptions of industry and manufacturing, size of fruit crops and landscape features
cr1869082803VisitorsImpressionsofSaugatuck.JPG; reprinted from Ostego Record, Saugatuck Union School Prof. Barnard praised, lack of churches scorned.
cr1871080503SaugatuckStory.jpg; 1871 fruit culture promising, Rev. Mr. Hamilton starting orchard nursery, clear cut land reported to grass over readily, Burgundy grape culture by Mr. Kleeman, E.W. Perry editor of Lake Shore Commercial, saw and shingle mills and extensive barrel factory. propeller Chaffee trips to Chicaog cr1871091603SaugatuckDouglasDescription.jpg; reprint from Douglas Free Press, population 1500, 7 stores, 2 hotels, two churches, 2 union schools, sawmills and machine shops, stave factory, sash factory, three tanneries. Six fishing establishments bringing in 375 tons of white fish and trout. Text promoting investing in fruit growing, account of S.A. Morrison transplanting peach trees from the Indian orchards. T.F. Kleeman wine grower of 400 pounds of Burgundy grapes and how he prepares the soil. 1867 M.B. Williams fruit farm. Fruit harvest statistics. Signed J.B. cr1883081004MrsBrownLetterforKitLane1-1.jpg; As Others See Us reprinted from Cedar Rapids Iowa Gazette, written by Mrs. J.E. Brown, July 26, 1983 - traveled on propeller ship cr1883081004MrsBrownLetterforKitLane1-2.jpg; Kalamazoo light, Fishtown, deserted Singapore, Mt. Baldhead a cr1883081004MrsBrownLetterforKitLane1-3.jpg cr1883081004MrsBrownLetterforKitLane2-1.jpg; Description of sailing up Kalamazoo River, Alice Purdy steamer captained by Robinson, C.M. Cook Saugatuck postmaster, cr1883081004MrsBrownLetterforKitLane2-2.jpg; A. Houtkamp Commercial Record publisher, Captain Brittain steamer fire, Captain Rogers of the cr1895070501VisitRememberedFrom1855.jpg; Dances at Saugatuck House, Mann homestead moved from Manlius to New Richmond to serve as store. cr1905092201BoomingSaugatuck.jpg; Reprint from Sept. issue of Triggs Magazine published by Prof. Oscar L. Triggs of Northwestern Magazine. A land shaped by the caprice of wind. Organized Saugatuck Association to plat W.S. Harbert's land as an educational and industrial center for a Chautaqua-type summer camp. 1905 letter from Harbert inviting Triggs to review the land cr1950062305RiverfromBC.jpg; 1950 H. Edwin Aldrich of Cassopolis, Michigan recollection of rafting down the Kalamazoo from Battle Creek a la Huckleberry Finn circa 1889, met Willie Johns,

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Newspapers1880 Tourism steamship era -19301870 Fruit growing, farming, agricultureNature, ecology, the landscapeDevelopment, land

Winthers, Sally

2024.01

Yoder, Chris

Donation, unconditional

These Commercial Record newspaper clippings — scanned by Chris Yoder in the 2000s — had been available on the pre-2023 SDHC website. The content has been moved to this online catalog for safekeeping. Publication dates are indicated in the year/month/day/page file name. For example "cr1938102801Description.jpg" = Commercial Record, 1938, October, 28th, page 01

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Mount Baldhead Dune/ParkHoutkamp, Adrian 1849-1919Cook, Civilian Morse 1849-1928

Singapore, Michigan 1837-1875

Kalamazoo River

03/15/2024

04/14/2024