Land Economic Survey Maps

Land Economic Survey Maps
RG 62-16

Lancaster Columbia

Source:
 

 
 
1. Michigan Historical Collection, Vol. 14, P550-553 (Sec. Ed.)
2. Michigan Biographies, Vol. II, L-Z, P9-10.
 
3. Biographies, Vol. 2 P110. Scrapbook of alss in Jenison Collection in the MSL vault. Signature …letter of no import.
 

 
SA
 
Exec Acts
 
October 29, 1839
 

 
S.T. Mason’s order to Secretary of [...]

Lake Superior Engraving

LAKE SUPERIOR ENGRAVING
 
Source:
 
1.         The Old Print Shop Portfolio, Vol. XIV, No. 9.  May, 1955.  P209. 
 
         Item 20.
Lake Superior -engraving 19”x30-1/2, plus good margins.  Hand colored:  published 1873 by M. Knoedler and Company.  Engraved by Mottram after painting by E. Hopkins ($95.00)
 

Labor Issues

EVENTS RELATING TO LABOR
 
Source:  UAW – Detroit                                    Solidarity House
                                                               8000 East Jefferson Ave.
                                                               Detroit, Michigan 48214
                                                               Carroll M. Hutton
                                                               Director of Education
 
1.         Dearborn         – Battle of the [...]

Labadie House

LABADIE HOUSE Source: 1. Detroit Free Press. April 14, 1901. Oldest house in Detroit, Corner River and 24th Streets. Interior described. Located on property of Mrs. Ira D. Brush.

DE LA RONDE, LOUIS DENIS

DE LA RONDE, LOUIS DENIS 
La Ronde is the name of the island in Lake Superior opposite Shagouamigon point, on the map of Bellin the celebrated geographer, which; in 1744, appeared in the History of New France by Charlevoix.
LaRonde was pioneer in copper mining in Lake Superior area and first navigator of Lake Superior in a [...]

No Nothing Party

KNOW-NOTHING PARTY (NATIVE AMERICANISM)
 
Source:
 
1.   Lardner, John.  “That was New York, the Martyrdom of Bill the Butcher.”  Story of Bill Poole and others such as James W. Barker, who ran for Mayor of New York in 1854, and Millard Fillmore, who ran for President in 1856.  Was a major political factor in political history of [...]

Knights of Pythias

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
 
See Marquette Daily Mining Journal, December 4, 1902, p. 3
         Article on founding of Knights of Pythias, Eagle Harbor
 
Marquette Daily Mining Journal, October 27, 1903, p. 3
         2-column article on Pythianism
 

KNIGHTS OF KU KLUX KLAN

 
Source:
 
1.   Corporation and securities.  Incorporated under general corporation law of 1925.  Last annual report filed in 1949.  This report includes history of articles of incorporation, purpose, officers, business and the like.  Articles of incorporation are in the Corporation and Securities office; the reports are in storage in the Record Center.  Charter revoked August 30, [...]

Kitch-Iti-Kipi or Big Spring

RESEARCH – KITCH-ITI-KIPPI OR BIG SPRINGS – ORIGIN OF NAME
 
Sources:
 
1.    Michigan, A Guide to the Wolverine State, p. 541 (Ind., cold big water)
2.    Michigan History, Vol. 10, p. 357 (Great Cool Water)
3.    The Lure of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.  U.P.D.B.  (Mirror of the Heaven)