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Alpena: February 26, 1957: Monarch Milling Company: 633 Campbell Street Alpena: May 30, 1996: George R. Nicholson House: 422 Washington Avenue: Alpena: October 10, 1989: Saint Bernard Church: Southeast corner of Fifth and Chisholm streets Alpena: February 18, 1982: Thunder Bay River, boundary of the Cession of 1819: Roadside Park, Alpena Avenue ...
The site was formerly occupied by the first Alpena County Courthouse, [5] destroyed by a fire on December 12, 1870, [6] and is a designated state historic site. [7] Originally known as the Centennial Block or the Hitchcock Block, the building was constructed in 1876 for Samuel E. Hitchcock and his wife, Samantha Hitchcock, two of the first settlers and most prominent citizens of the city of ...
Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...
Herman Besser was born near Buffalo, New York, in 1853.Harriette M. Ely was born nearby in 1855. The two married in 1881 in Cheektowaga, New York.Their first child, Jesse, was born in 1882, and soon after the family moved to Montmorency County, Michigan, where they purchased extensive timber holdings.
Alpena County Courthouse in Alpena. Alpena (/ æ l ˈ p iː n ə / al-PEE-nə) is the only city and the county seat of Alpena County, Michigan, United States. [4] The population was 10,197 at the 2020 census, [citation needed] making it the third most populated city in the Northern Michigan region, after Traverse City and Cadillac.
The Town that Wouldn't Die: A Photographic History of Alpena, Michigan from Its Beginnings Through 1940. Alpena, Michigan: Jesse Besser Museum. ISBN 978-0-9617779-0-6. ISBN 978-0-9617779-0-6. Prothero, Frank; Prothero, Nancy (1990). The Lone Survivor: The Katherine V of Rogers City: a Report. Nan-Sea Pub. Limited.
Now, using DNA, 3D printing and modelling clay, a team of scientists has reconstructed Zosia's 400-year-old face, revealing the human story buried by supernatural beliefs.
The Art Deco building, dubbed "Fort Alpena" by a local writer, is embellished by architectural sculpture, including an eagle perched atop the clock on the main facade and figures of Justice and Law as well as "fascia designs show(ing) images of the county's lumbering, shipbuilding, farming, fishing and recreational industries." [12]