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Manistique Lake, locally called Big Manistique Lake [2] to distinguish it from the other lakes in the Manistique Lakes system, is a 10,130-acre (4,100 ha) lake in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. Approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) long and 4 miles (6.4 km) wide, it is one of the largest lakes in the Upper Peninsula.
The camp was used from 1935 to 1941 as a Michigan Social Welfare Community Organization site to house workers employed in the forest. In 1967, the Iron County Sportsman Club purchased the camp. Camp Gibbs contains 16 single-story wood-frame, gable -roof buildings, plus the sites of three other buildings that have been demolished.
Manistique River is an outlet on the west side of Big Manistique and drains into Lake Michigan. The Manistique Lake Dam is downstream of the lake and the connection between the Manistique River and the Fox River. The dam keeps fish from moving from the Manistique River to Big Manistique Lake. [2] Big Manistique Lake
Originally located near West Olive (Port Sheldon) on Lake Michigan (1916–1927) it re-located to Duck Lake, near Whitehall, Michigan, in 1927 the property was acquired by the Nature Conservancy in the early 1970s and is now part of Duck Lake State Park. Gerald R. Ford was a camp staff member there in 1927–28. Camp Silver Lake
Manistique (/ m æ n ɪ s ˈ t i k / man-iss-TEEK) is the only city and county seat of Schoolcraft County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [4] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 2,828. [5] The city borders the adjacent Manistique Township, but the two are administered independently.
South Manistique Lake is a 4,001-acre (1,619 ha) lake in Mackinac County, in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.Approximately 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, it is oriented in a southwest–northeast direction.
Fort Custer State Recreation Area is a 3,033-acre (12 km 2) State Recreation Area located between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, Michigan. The area features lakes, the Kalamazoo River , over 25 miles of multi-use trails, second growth oak barrens and dry-mesic southern (oak-hickory) forests.
The state of Michigan acquired Kitch-iti-kipi in 1926. History records that John I. Bellaire, owner of a Manistique Five and Dime store, fell in love with the black hole spring when he discovered it in the thick wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the 1920s. It was hidden in a tangle of fallen trees, and loggers used the nearby area as ...