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Pre-Order our Newest Publication and Save $5.00

Delivery scheduled for early June 2012. 
 Advance Sale ends on delivery, so don't wait to order.

 
This beautiful hard bound 8½ x 11" Collectors Edition containing 240 pages explores Cheboygan County's early settlements, when pioneers including Civil War veterans and their families endured economic hardship to forge a new agricultural, business and industrial community. 

Read stories of our earliest settlers, the lumber and fishing industries, Cheboygan's contribution to the Civil War; medicine and doctors of early Cheboygan, the Pest House and much, much more.

Table of Contents 

Written and edited by Sally Eustice-Humphrey the book contains contributions from Phil Porter, Executive Director of the Mackinac State Historic Parks, Ellis Olson, local historian, Terry Pepper of the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association and others.

Richly illustrated with historic images of Cheboygan County--some rarely seen and some never-before-seen. The first in the The Cheboygan County History Series, this is a must have book for your library or coffee table.

Only $30.00* on the Advance Sale. 
After delivery, the cost is $35.00.

*plus MI sales tax and $6.00 shipping if you cannot pick it up.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction , biographic information of our authors
Chapters:

1.       Cheboygan’s Earliest Days—Native American, Traders

2.       Our Founding Family and Some of their Neighbors

3.       Duncan—Cheboygan’s Ghost Town—Ellis Olson

4.       Cheboygan’s Commercial Fishing Story--Sally Eustice Humphrey

a.       Of the Days When We Were a Fishtown—Gordon Turner

b.      Memories of Cheboygan’s Past—Ross Bell

5.       Seeing the Light- Cheboygan Area Lighthouses—Terry Pepper

a.       The Men and Women Who Kept the Lights—Sally Eustice Humphrey

6.       Cheboygan Answers Lincoln’s Call to Arms—Sally Eustice Humphrey

7.       Black River Settlement—Dale France

8.       Cheboygan Brewing History—Phil Porter

9.       Cheboygan Tannery—Largest Sole Leather Tanner in the World—Sally Eustice Humphrey

10.   Early Medical Care—Doctors, Dentists, Drug Stores, Home Hospitals, County Poor Farm—Sally Eustice Humphrey

Ending Poem

Census Chart

Index

 

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