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Learn about the history and architecture of the historic skyscraper hotel in downtown Detroit, Michigan, that reopened in 2008 after a $200-million restoration. The hotel has 453 rooms, 65 condominiums, and was the tallest building in the city when it opened in 1924.
Chautauqua Lake is a natural lake in Chautauqua County, New York, with a surface area of 13,000 acres and a maximum depth of 78 feet. It is a popular destination for boating, fishing, tourism and the Chautauqua Institution, a cultural center founded in 1874.
In 2010 the Great Lakes Steamship Society (GLSS) was formed (and soon thereafter incorporated) with the intention of acquiring and preserving items of maritime heritage on the Great Lakes, with their first goal the preservation of the J. B. Ford. [6] The GLSS achieved 501c3 non profit status in 2011 and worked to save the vessel until July 2014.
One vessel built in 1883, the 203-foot (62 m) long, 807 ton City of Mackinac (renamed State of New York in 1893 by the Cleveland and Buffalo Line) was sold back to D&C in 1909. The City of Mackinac was later converted into the floating clubhouse of the Chicago Yacht Club (from 1936 to 2004) and was the last known vessel of the D&C Line to survive.
Benjamin Atkins was a serial killer and rapist who murdered 11 women in Michigan in 1991-1992. He was arrested, confessed, and received multiple life sentences, but died from AIDS in 1997.
MV Maumee, used to be one of the oldest active bulk freighters on the Lakes, until she was scrapped in 2012. Here she is, unloading in Holland, Michigan. Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carrier vessels which ply the Great Lakes. The best-known variety is the oreboat, depicted in songs from Gordon Lightfoot, Stan Rogers and others. Some ...
SS Clifton, originally Samuel Mather, was a whaleback lake freighter built in 1892 for service on the Great Lakes.She was 308 foot (94 m) long, 30 foot (9.1 m) beam, and 24 foot (7.3 m) depth, and had a 3,500 ton capacity.
In related news, the city of Richland removed its swim dock at Howard Amon Park on Aug. 27, in part to help curtail cyanotoxins in the area.. The dock had served as a collection point for debris ...