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The museum includes Teddy Bear House and displays antique and other teddy bears. It initially opened in 1990, in Bournemouth under the title of 'The Bournemouth Bears', but moved to a Victorian building in Dorchester in 1995 and is regarded as the oldest teddy bear museum in Britain. [ 3 ]
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. national lakeshore in the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.Located within Benzie and Leelanau counties, the park extends along a 35-mile (56 km) stretch of Lake Michigan's eastern coastline, as well as North and South Manitou islands, preserving a total of 71,199 acres (111 sq mi; 288 km 2).
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
The PSAR team is run by Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes in conjunction with park officials, said Jesse Lewit, program coordinator for the Friends group. They have about 20 volunteers and try to ...
The Platte River Campground site extends 300 meters (980 ft) along the north bank of the Platte River, and runs up to 160 meters (520 ft) deep. [3] The site is a multicomponent site, with repeated prehistoric occupations over the Middle and Late Woodland Periods as well as historic occupation around the turn of the 20th century; thus, artifacts were found covering a range of time periods.
It is part of Leelanau County and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The uninhabited island is 8.277 sq mi (21.44 km 2) in land area and can be accessed by a ferry service from Leland. Guided tours on open-air vehicles are available to visitors, but most traffic is on foot. Larger North Manitou Island lies to its north.
The Sleeping Bear Point Life Saving Station includes four buildings: a residence, a boat house, a storage shed, and a signal tower. [2] The residence is a two-story frame building on a cement foundation with a wood-shingled gable roof. A porch with four square columns spans the front of the structure.
Port Oneida Rural Historic District contains approximately 3,400 acres (1,400 ha) along Lake Michigan, within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.The historic district has roughly 150 buildings, most of which are gathered in separate farmsteads throughout the district.