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Warren Dunes State Park is a 1,500-acre (610 ha) public recreation area located along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Berrien County, Michigan. [2] The state park 's large sand dunes and lakeshore beaches make it one of the most popular of Michigan's state parks with an average of about one million visitors annually.
Cottage near Lake Michigan in Shorewood Hills, c. 1950. Shorewood–Tower Hills–Harbert is a census-designated place (CDP) composed of several small unincorporated communities in Chikaming Township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
The woods are named for Edward Kirk Warren (1847-1919), the inventor of the featherbone corset (which replaced the whalebone in corsets with turkey feathers and secured his fortune). Starting in 1879, [3] Warren bought 150 acres (0.61 km 2) of the woods and 250 acres (1.0 km 2) of the dunes, setting them aside for preservation. [4]
As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US President Andrew Jackson. [1] The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state.
The Edward K. Warren Foundation developed and preserved Warren Dunes State Park. Warren was a prominent citizen of Three Oaks and served at times as treasurer, clerk, and supervisor. Warren was also a philanthropist, establishing the Edward K. Warren Foundation to oversee the management of two 200-acre (81 ha) tracts of forest and beach.
A developer seeks to demolish Warren's Lobster House in Kittery, Maine and to replace it with condos and a marina. Warren's Lobster House, an iconic restaurant in Kittery, Maine, eyed for condos ...
The largely undeveloped state park features 14 miles (23 km) of hiking trails, 200-foot-high (61 m) sand dunes covered with trees and grass, and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of beachfront located two-thirds of a mile from the picnic parking area. [2]
Dune Forest Village was an "island" retreat not surrounded by water, but by the sand dunes of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. [1] It consisted of a set of several small custom-made summer cabins and buildings at a homesteaded property in Michigan. [2]