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Dan Seavey (March 23, 1865 – February 14, 1949), also known as "Roaring" Dan Seavey, was an American sailor, fisherman, farmer, saloon keeper, prospector, U.S. marshal, thief, poacher, smuggler, hijacker, procurer, and timber pirate in Wisconsin and Michigan and on the Great Lakes in the late 19th to early 20th century.
The Buckeye Lake Pirate Festival will officially open at 5 p.m. Friday with a special Pirate Fest Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to open the Pirate Marketplace
The request was not acted on until 1902, when Congress appropriated $25,000 for the construction of a light and fog signal on Middle Island, one of the last lights in a string along the Michigan shore of Lake Huron. Preparations for construction of the light began in 1903, and a contract for construction was awarded in 1904. [1]
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[3] [4] [22] Because of the hydrologic connectivity through the Straits, some sources consider the total area and volume of Lake Michigan–Huron when placing this system in a global or regional context. [23] When Lake Michigan–Huron is treated as a single entity, it is the largest freshwater lake by surface area in the world. [1] [23] [24] [25]
The Boyne City Pirate Fest is underway with loads of swashbuckling fun. ... The PirateFest Parade will take place at 10 a.m. on Saturday, traveling down Lake Street and ending at Veterans Park ...
By surface area, Lake Huron is the second-largest of the Great Lakes, with a surface area of 23,007 square miles (59,590 km 2)—of which 9,103 square miles (23,580 km 2) lies in Michigan and 13,904 square miles (36,010 km 2) lies in Ontario—making it the third-largest fresh water lake on Earth (or the fourth-largest lake, if the Caspian Sea ...
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Huron's Thunder Bay, within the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It protects an estimated 116 historically significant shipwrecks ranging from nineteenth-century wooden side-wheeler paddle steamers to twentieth ...