Bell Knapp Cabin move in Aug. 2024 to the Clare County History Park.
Author: clarecountyhistory
Photos from the collections of T.M. Sellers
Note: This is the first of two posts dealing with the geologic history of Clare County, Michigan, USA. Ever take a good look at our county? Its rolling landscape, many bodies of water (20 Lakes in 20 Minutes), numerous gravel and sand pits, the fact that the south end of the county is hundreds of feet lower than […]
Note: This is the second of two posts dealing with the geologic history of Clare County, Michigan, USA. If you like warm, you should have lived in Clare County, Michigan about 360 million years ago (about 5.6 miles away on our long yardstick in which 1,000 years equals 1 inch and we are at one end). Back […]
Jim Garrity went off to war. Jim was a farm kid from rural Clare County, Michigan, a poor, sparsely populated county in mid Michigan. According to family history, Jim enlisted in the navy in Nov. 1917 joining his cousin Arthur Looker at the Naval Training Academy in Illinois. Jim Garrity went off to war but never saw […]