Identifier: laketourtopictur01detr (find matches)
Title: A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac; historical and descriptive
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: (Detroit and Cleveland steam navigation co.) (from old catalog) Whitcomb, Cummings D. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Detroit, Mich., O. S. Gulley, Bornman & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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sland, Once whenthe party returned, she could not distinguish his familiar and loved warshout, and her spirit told her that he had gone to the happy huntinggrounds. An enemys arrow had pierced his breast, but ere he died hewished the mourning warriors to remember him to the sweet maid ofhis heart. The girls heart was broken, and she constantly saw her be-loved beckoning her to follow him, appearing to her in human shape butinvisible to others. One morning her body was found mangled at thefoot of this bluff, her soul had gone to meet her warrior in the spiritland. Some distance from this is Chimney Rock which is said to be one of the most remarkablefreaks of Nature^ A foot path which leads from the beach near the baseof Lovers Leap to the plateau above brings you to the old Davenportfarm, now. owned by the Mackinac Island Summer Resort Association,where several elegant summer cottages have been built, and to whichadditions are made each season. A central building is used as a dining 94
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A Lake Tour to Picturesque Mackinac hall, from which meals are furnished at very near cost. Eighty acreshave been neatly laid out and platted, and lots for the erection of cot-tages are being sold on very advantageous terms. The secretary of theassociation can be addressed at Kalamazoo, Mich. Last seasons im-provements aggregated over $20,000, one cottage costing $3,800. A visit to the old fort w/ill be found interesting. There are variousv^ays of reaching it from the village. Up the steps is probably theeasiest, and the view at the top is well worth the effort. The old blockhouses, the officers quarters, guard house, barracks, commissary, hos-pital, magazine and gun platform are all points of interest, and fromthe latter a magnificent view is obtained. Below are seen the govern-ment stables, blacksmiths shop and granary, and beyond the companysgardens. When built, the fort was enclosed by a, stockade ten feethigh, made of cedar pickets, into the tops of which were driven ironswith th

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