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Rogers City was established in 1868, when William E. Rogers, Albert Molitor, Frederick Denny Larke, and John Raymond arrived to survey the area and for logging.In 1870, a post office opened in the settlement under the name Rogers' Mills, though this name was changed several times; to Rogers City in 1872, to Rogers in 1895, and back to Rogers City in 1928.
A boat of particular importance to the history of maritime Rogers City is the SS Carl D. Bradley, once the largest vessel carrying bulk freight on the Great Lakes. The Bradley, caught in a severe storm off Gull Island in Lake Michigan while returning to her home port in ballast, broke apart and foundered on the night of November 18, 1958. Only ...
Rogers City, MI: Circulation: 3,371 (as of 2022) [1] Website: piadvance.com: Presque Isle County Advance is a weekly community newspaper that was founded in 1878 by ...
They live in a farmhouse from 1906. In a blog post titled "These Walls," Jenny recalled the day in 2012 when Dave took her and their two sons at the time for a walkthrough of an old farmhouse that ...
Rogers Township is a civil township of Presque Isle County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 964 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] Rogers City is mostly surrounded by the township but is administratively autonomous.
Sacred Rock is an Engadine-dolomite boulder, [1] now 20 feet long by 8 feet wide and 6 feet high, on the shore of Lake Huron in Northern Lower Michigan.It is located 6 miles north of Rogers City, Michigan, approximately 0.5 miles north of P.H. Hoeft State Park.
In 1920, soon after the establishment of the Michigan state park system, Hoeft offered to donate land to the state to create a park. At the time the state was also upgrading the main trunkline running through Rogers City - now US23 - and area tourism was on an upswing. Paul H. Hoeft State Park was formally established in 1921.
Carl Bradley and W. F. White at Calcite in 1919. This house was constructed in 1914 by George J. Radka, a local contractor and the owner of a planing mill. [2] Radka died unexpectedly at the end of 1914, and in 1915 the house was sold to J. L. Marsters, general superintendent of the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company. [3]