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Verne Pomraning, an Elmwood Township resident for the past 14 years, has been doing construction work in Alaska for the past 16 months, staying with his brother in the Anchorage area.
VERNE POMRANING of Elmwood Township,
shown with his motorcycle, has been doing
construction work in Alaska.
During a visit back to Leelanau County late last month, he was […]
They called him "Soapy."
Not former Michigan Gov. G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams, but rather Jefferson "Soapy" Smith, con man extraordinaire.
Frank
Hahnenberg
He earned his nickname by selling bars of soap in Alaska for $5 each. He also sold "telegraphic services," although the telegraph lines he had installed actually went nowhere and return "messages" were bogus.
Smith was “brought to […]
It was 60 years ago this month.
Trucks and tractors used in the construction of the new airfield were pictured in the Leelanau Enterprise on May 27, 1948.
The new Empire/Glen Lake Airport was completed and the Enterprise carried the news of the dedication in its edition of Sept. 2, 1948.
“You have done a fine thing in […]
Today, communication is fast and virtually universal.
But it wasn’t always so - particularly in Leelanau County's earliest years.
So isolated were the communities in this part of the state, including Traverse City, that a trip to a large city downstate, or to a place such as Milwaukee or Chicago, constituted what the local residents called “going […]
It provided land and new homes for many families.
"Go west, young man, go west."
The famous 19th century phrase is generally attributed to Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune.
In this corner of northern Michigan, many young men did indeed "come west," particularly from New York or various New England states.
Although most closely associated with […]
It's been 100 years.
A century has elapsed since the introduction of Henry Ford's once ubiquitous "Model T," the car that "hooked America on cars."
And they may still be seen this time of year in Leelanau County, individually, or perhaps more commonly, in small club convoys.
Prior to the introduction of the Model T, the automobile was […]
The Enterprise can play in the same league as the "big boys."
At least it did so 60 years ago, in 1948.
In that election year, President Harry Truman pulled off the “upset of the century.”
No one expected that Truman, who became president when Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945, could be elected president “in his own […]
It's now the "Ashley Building."
To be more precise, it’s the James M. & Thomas W.L. Ashley Customs Building – a federal building and U.S. courthouse in downtown Toledo, Ohio.
Before adjourning for the summer, Congress passed a bill July 23 authorizing the naming of the building in Toledo to honor the two former Ohio congressmen. Formal […]
The Edward Buckley almost went the way of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
THE EDWARD BUCKLEY is shown with logs piled high on deck. It made many trips like this a century ago, between North Manitou Island and Empire. In 1903, the little ship came within a hair’s breadth of sinking in Lake Michigan. […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Steam barge's survival 'a miracle'”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/08/06/steam-barges-survival-a-miracle/” });
The culprits made their getaway by horse and buggy.
And Leelanau "Sheriff Martin Brown and a posse immediately made a search," according to Traverse City's Evening Record of Sept. 28, 1906, which detailed the news of the attempt made very early the previous day to destroy the dam at Leland with dynamite.
At 12:30 a.m. on the […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Explosion at dam never solved”, url: “http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/07/30/explosion-at-dam-never-solved/” });
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