Charlevoix, Michigan Charlevoix, Michigan Aerial view of the town from above Lake Michigan; the small lake in the center is Round Lake and the larger one in the background is Lake Charlevoix.
Aerial view of the town from above Lake Michigan; the small lake in the center is Round Lake and the larger one in the background is Lake Charlevoix.
County Charlevoix Charlevoix (/ rl v / sharl- -voy) is a town/city in the U.S.
It is the governmental center of county of Charlevoix County. Charlevoix Township is a separate municipal entity that completely surrounds the town/city and has a year-round populace of 1,697.
Typical of Northern Michigan towns, Charlevoix has a much higher cyclic tourist populace in the summer.
The short Pine River flows through downtown, past the Charlevoix South Pier Light Station, and into Lake Michigan The town/city is situated between Lake Michigan and the end of Lake Charlevoix, which drains into Lake Michigan through the short Round Lake/Pine River complex in the heart of downtown Charlevoix.
The Charlevoix South Pier Light Station marks the opening of the channel onto Lake Michigan.
Charlevoix's Round Lake has been called the best natural harbor on Lake Michigan.
The only way to get from Lake Michigan to East Jordan, Boyne City and other sites on Lake Charlevoix by boat is via Charlevoix.
As a result, much commercial, industrial, and recreational boat traffic passes through Charlevoix.
The town/city of Charlevoix has a U.S.
Station Charlevoix has served the waters of Lake Charlevoix and Lake Michigan for over one hundred years.
The station was first sited in 1898 on the south break wall of the Pine River Channel, dominant into Lake Michigan.
During the early 1960s, the station was relocated to its present-day locale along the Pine River Channel's Lake Charlevoix end.
The region of response for Station Charlevoix runs from Cross Village down to Leland, extending into Lake Michigan through Beaver Island and the North and South Fox Islands, and covers various inland lakes and waterways.
Some USCG Auxiliary surface facilities are occasionally moored at Station Charlevoix.
The US-31 Island Lake Outlet Bridge, a bascule bridge in Charlevoix that carries US 31 M-66 terminates at US 31 in Charlevoix and continues southerly through East Jordan and Kalkaska en route to the southern part of the state.
The Charlevoix County Transit System provides demand responsive transport, or dial-a-ride, bus service Monday-Saturday for the entire county.
Charlevoix Depot Museum is homed in the initial train station; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Regular intercity passenger train service ended on September 1, 1962 after the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) discontinued Traverse City, Michigan Charlevoix Petoskey, Michigan service.
Freight rail service ended between Charlevoix and Williamsburg, Michigan in 1982 after Chessie System abandoned the track.
The state of Michigan purchased the track between Charlevoix and Petoskey from the Chessie System Railroads and contracted Michigan Northern Railway to operate it.
The Charlevoix barns depot has been adapted as a exhibition of the Charlevoix Historical Society.
Charlevoix is titled after Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix, a French explorer who travelled the Great Lakes and was said to have stayed the evening on Fisherman's Island amid a harsh storm.
Charlevoix became the governmental center of county in 1869 when Charlevoix County was formed, but by 1876, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad had assembled a line north to Petoskey with stops in Boyne Falls and Melrose.
This link to metros/cities in lower Michigan brought increased populace to Charlevoix County, and new political power to the easterly part of the county.
Charlevoix became the governmental center of county in 1869 when Charlevoix County was formed, but by 1876, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad had assembled a line north to Petoskey with stops in Boyne Falls and Melrose.
This link to metros/cities in lower Michigan brought increased populace to Charlevoix County, and new political power to the easterly part of the county.
European-American settlement of Charlevoix was initially by fishermen, who were there by 1852. Soon after its formation in the 1850s, the inhabitants of Charlevoix entered into a short-lived conflict with Jesse Strang, prestige and namesake of the Strangite Mormons, and then self-proclaimed 'king' of Beaver Island.
Portion of the historic Chicago Club, one of the a several large resort communities that advanced in Charlevoix around the turn of the 20th century.
In 1864, pioneer assembled a large dock at the mouth of the Pine River on Lake Michigan.
Boats there were exposed to the harsh vicissitudes of Great Lakes weather, so small-town business doers sought to connect Lake Michigan to an inland harbor at Round Lake.
The Pine River channel was dredged in 1869, connecting Lake Michigan to Lake Charlevoix. Dixon instead of plats of the entire town (then called "Pine River"), showing that he owned most of the land. By 1867, Charlevoix had its first boarding home, the Fountain City House Charlevoix became the governmental center of county in 1869 when Charlevoix County was formed.
In 1869, the Charlevoix Sentinel was founded, which became a primary journal of record for the region for the next 60 years. Prior to 1869, Lake Charlevoix (then known as Pine Lake) was two feet higher than Round Lake, which was 2 feet higher than Lake Michigan.
In order to aid lumber and boat traffic, town/city leaders pooled resources to cut a channel between Lake Charlevoix to Round Lake, and to dredge the Pine River for navigation between Round Lake and Lake Michigan.
When this was instead of in 1869, lake levels dropped, and navigation between Lake Charlevoix and Lake Michigan was established.
Another transformative event came in November 1873 when rail operations appeared in "Bear Creek" (now known as Petoskey), 16 miles north. Passengers and goods passed through Petoskey and made their way to Charlevoix via boat or stagecoach.
Between 1868 and 1884, the Army Corps of Engineers used dredging and revetment to increase Pine River channel width from 75 feet to over 100 feet, and period the channel depth from under 6 feet to a depth of 12 feet. In 1876, Charlevoix was declared a port of entry and became one of the busiest ports on the Great Lakes. Lumber mills proliferated as the forests along Lake Charlevoix could finally be harvested.
In 1876, John Nichols merged Charlevoix lumber operations into the Charlevoix Lumber Company, and it became a Charlevoix institution for decades.
At its height in the late 1800s, the business annually shipped out more than 40 million board feet of lumber before it stripped much of the peninsula. For many years Charlevoix was a fueling stop for the wood-powered steamships on Lake Michigan. Charlevoix incorporated as a village in 1879. Strang started the Charlevoix Journal, which would be retitled the Charlevoix Courier in 1894. Dr.
Charlevoix became the governmental center of county again in 1894. The Argo Milling Company was assembled in 1886 along the Pine River.
In 1892, the first rail traffic to Charlevoix appeared as the Chicago and West Michigan Railway extended rail service from Traverse town/city to Bay View.
(This is not related to the 1901 Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad line to East Jordan).
Ferry Seed Company period their operations in Northern Michigan, developing the territory along Lake Charlevoix in 1892.
Ferry's Charlevoix operations continued until 1927. In 1899, the Federal Revenue Cutter Service came to Charlevoix and began tending buoys on the north side of the Round lake train bridge. This site would later turn into known as the Coast Guard moorings.
Felts of Rushville, Indiana had purchased thousands of acres between Mount Mc - Sauba and Big Rock point and began assembly of a massive sugar beet factory to be called the Charlevoix Sugar Company. The National Construction Company of Detroit assembled the factory between 1902 and 1903 at the point where Stover Creek emptied into Pine Lake. The factory was not profitable, and by 1911 the factory had closed and the machinery was removed to Ohio. The building, made almost entirely of concrete, slowly decayed until it was completed in 1964 to make room for the Irish boat shop. In 1909, Chicago real estate developer and Chicago Club of Charlevoix member Edward Carson Waller purchased 2000-acres north of the Pere Marquette rail line including the former Felts tract.
He replanted the territory with pine trees, and commissioned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to problematic a bathing pavilion on the site. The pavilion burned down in 1922 or 1923, but Waller continued to own the tract until his death in 1931. To this day, Waller Road extends through a large residentiary region on the north side of Charlevoix.
With three summer associations (the Belvedere Club, Sequanota Club, and the Chicago Club); a number of luxurious summer hotels, including The Inn and The Beach; and rail service at two train depots on the Pere Marquette Railway line (one depot for the Belvedere Club on the south side of Round Lake and one on the north side near the Chicago Club); Charlevoix became known as one of the nation's finest summer communities.
In 1913, the Pine Point evolution (near Oyster Bay) opened on Pine Lake, making it one of the earliest neighborhood subdivisions in the Charlevoix area. Charlevoix was also a prominent destination for many lake passenger liners, including the Manitou, Alabama, North American, South American, Milwaukee Clipper, Illinois, and others.
Listed Charlevoix as a port of call for a several Michigan steamboat lines including: connecting at Mackinaw Island with steamer lines to and from Milwaukee and Chicago, Petoskey, Charlevoix, Frankfort, Bay View, and Green Bay Ports.) Boyne City and Charlevoix Line (daily) East Jordan and Charlevoix Steamboat Line Manitou Steamship Company (Between Chicago, Frankfort, Charlevoix, Petoskey, Roaring Brook, Wequetonsing, Harbor Springs, Bay View, and Mackinaw) Northern Michigan Transportation Company (every Wednesday and Saturday between Chicago and Ludington, Manistee, Frankfort, Glen Haven, Glen Arbor, Northport, Suttons Bay, Traverse City, Old Mission, Charlevoix, Petoskey, Harbor Springs, Bay View, St.
Traverse Bay Transportation Company (daily between Traverse City, Northport, Charlevoix, and intermediate points) In 1925, members of the Charlevoix Summer Resort Association decided their existing civil club needed a golf course.
In 1918, Albert Loeb, an executive from the Sears corporation in Chicago, assembled an experimental farm on the southern outskirts of Charlevoix.
In its heyday it was the major employer in Charlevoix County. Loeb's son became involved in an continuing murder trial (the Leopold and Loeb trial).
During the trial, Scopes trial lawyer Clarence Darrow appeared at the Charlevoix train station to visit the Loeb family at Loeb Farms.
In 1926. Pine Lake was retitled Lake Charlevoix.
Between 1927 and 1948, Former Michigan Football player Lewis Reimann established Camp Charlevoix as a recreational camp for at-risk boys. first in Ironton, Michigan and then in 1928 at a permanent 170 acre site on the shores of Lake Charlevoix. Reimann directed Camp Charlevoix for more than 20 years. After an expansion in 1937, Reimann sold Camp Charlevoix in 1948. Camp Charlevoix continued operations under Kenneth W.
During Prohibition, Charlevoix became a prominent place for gang members from the Chicago area.
The converted lumber barge Keuka served as a blind pig and speakeasy and sailed eveningly between Boyne City and Charlevoix, hosting its guests in relative comfort.
A murder aboard the ship and the pressure of US Treasury Department surveillance, however, forced the owner to scuttle the vessel in Lake Charlevoix.
In 1930, the first Charlevoix Venetian Festival started as a candle-lit boat parade.
In the early 1930s photographer and historian Bob Miles began a 42-year longterm position documenting the town/city of Charlevoix and encircling areas. In 1939, the Charlevoix Kiwanis Club created Boy Scout Troop 11. Troop 1l is the second earliest Boy Scout troop in Northern Michigan. A drawbridge was prepared to be assembled in 1940, but due to Pearl Harbor, the culmination of the current Charlevoix drawbridge bridge was delayed until 1947. The City of Charlevoix suffered economically amid the decades after World War II, due to industrialized revamping and shifts in fashion, as citizens used automobiles and aircraft s to travel to new tourist destinations.
Charlevoix City Hall November 18, 1958, Charlevoix City Hall served as a makeshift morgue for the bodies of crewmen of the SS Carl D.
Bradley after the lake freighter foundered in Lake Michigan amid a harsh storm.
The USCGC Sundew, stationed at Charlevoix, was one of the first vessels to arrive at the search region and played a pivotal part in that evening's rescue of the two surviving crewmen.
Charlevoix was home to Michigan's first nuclear power plant, Big Rock Point, which directed from 1962 to 1997.
On January 7, 1971 an unarmed USAF B-52 - C-45-BO, 54-2666, of the 9th BW, Westover AFB, Massachusetts, crashed into Lake Michigan near Charlevoix amid a practice bomb run, exploding on impact. Only a small amount of wreckage, two life vests, and some spilled fuel were found in Little Traverse Bay.
They build a cement plant in Charlevoix that came on line in 1967.
This not only resulted in modernization and investment in the Charlevoix plant, but personnel (and their families) from other Crane cement holdings were transferred into the Charlevoix region in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
In 1974, Terry and Judy Edger opened WVOY-AM in Charlevoix.
In May 1980, former WVOY employee Tim Moore started the WKHQ-FM "The Rhythm of the Northwest" airways broadcast in downtown Charlevoix using TM Programming's "Stereo Rock" format.
Even with moving its studios to Petoskey in the 1990s, WKHQ is still licensed as being from Charlevoix.
In 1991, former farmland near Stover Creek along M-66 was advanced into "Charlevoix Commons" shopping center, anchored by a K-mart with the Charlevoix Estates mobile home park athwart the street.
In 1993 600 acres of the undeveloped Waller tract on the north side of town was transformed into an 18-hole golf course and residentiary evolution titled the Charlevoix Country Club. After the 1996 murder of Jon - Benet Ramsey, whose family spent summers in Charlevoix and had won a pageant in the town, Charlevoix became a regular haven for tabloid photographers, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Ramsey family.
John Ramsey, Jon - Benet's father and husband of the late Patsy Ramsey, still resides in Charlevoix.
In 1997, Charlevoix made nationwide news when it experienced a fireworks disaster amid the Venetian Festival.
In 2004 and 2005, Wal-Mart tried to build a 157,00 square foot superstore on the edge of town (Charlevoix Township) near the intersection of US-31 and Marion Center Road athwart from the Charlevoix airport.
For a list of historical landmarks, see Charlevoix County. Petunia Planting- Petunia planting began in 1982 when "Keep Charlevoix Beautiful" organization member Dale Boss had a vision to line the streets of the town/city with thousands of petunias from the north side of the town/city limit all the way to the south and "Operation Petunia" began.
Venetian-The Venetian Festival began in 1931 with a very simple boat show in Charlevoix's Round Lake and has now grown into a seven-day festival bringing in tens of thousands of citizens and costing $200,000.
It gives small-town farmers the chance to sell their harvest right in the downtown Charlevoix area.
Car Raffle- Charlevoix has an annual car raffle, sponsored by Charlevoix Chamber of Commerce, to generate funds for capital improvements and operations. Art and Craft Show- The art and craft show is held one weekend in July each summer in downtown Charlevoix.
View of downtown Charlevoix View of Round Lake from downtown Charlevoix Charlevoix bills itself as "Charlevoix the Beautiful" on its promotional literature and on municipal signs around the city.
Lake Charlevoix Charlevoix is primarily served by four newspapers: the Charlevoix Courier, the Petoskey News Review, the Traverse City Record-Eagle, and the Detroit Free Press.
Most tv and airways broadcasts are based in Traverse City and serve all of the Northern Michigan region including Charlevoix.
Charlevoix has one movie tri-plex theater embedded inside its downtown and no big box shopping outlets except for Kmart, having outlawed them after refusing Wal-Mart's proposed store on the edge of the city.
There is a improve pool on the north side of town and a bowling alley on the south side near the Charlevoix Municipal Airport.
Typical of small towns, high school athletic affairs are an integral part of Charlevoix's culture.
Several notable golf courses are assembled around Charlevoix: Belvedere Golf Club, Charlevoix Country Club, Dunmaglas, Antrim Dells, and the nine-hole Charlevoix Municipal Golf Course, which was once eighteen holes as part of the Chicago Club.
Charlevoix used to be a "one stoplight town" until it received a second stoplight in the 1980s at the intersection of M-66 and US 31.
Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Joe Henry, who spent much of his childhood in Michigan, includes a song entitled 'Charlevoix' on his 1990 album Shuffletown. Ernest Hemingway, iconic author, spent his boyhood summers in the area, setting many of his Nick Adams Stories on or near Lake Charlevoix.
Alson Wood, Wisconsin politician, lived in Charlevoix.
Charlevoix is part of Northern Michigan.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Charlevoix has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Climate data for Charlevoix, Michigan (1981 2010) Charlevoix has recently begun to contend with the prospect of urban sprawl.
There was momentous controversy in the 1990s over the decision to extend water pipes into non-urban farmland south of Charlevoix in order to build a new Charlevoix High School. In the early 2000s, Charlevoix, led by Green Party Drain Commissioner Jo - Anne Beemon, successfully fought off a bid by Walmart to open a store along this new water pipeline on the south edge of town. From 2006 to 2008, Charlevoix has offered to host the La - Salle-Griffon Project, a universal that seeks to the ruins of a shipwreck that may be Le Griffon. In late 2012, Charlevoix has a small-town controversy about an Onaway Stone fireplace that was donated and being constructed in east park with an annual operating cost of $6,700.00. Panorama of downtown Charlevoix Harsha House, part of the Charlevoix Historical Society Lake Michigan Sunset in Charlevoix, Michigan "Charlevoix County Transit System".
"Historical photo for March 7 - Charlevoix Courier: Community".
"Settling Charlevoix | Park Avenue Prowl".
"Charlevoix Courier".
In 1936, the Courier's number one competitor, the Charlevoix Sentinel, established in 1869 by De Witt C.
Charlevoix Courier.
Until 1869, Lake Charlevoix was 2 feet higher than Round Lake, which in turn was 2 feet higher than Lake Michigan.
After the big cut, which made a passage a several times wider and much straighter, thousands of logs could now be fed into Round Lake and the mill, and much larger boats could reach Pine Lake, setting off a fierce competition for the carrying of freight and passengers.
Charlevoix and Emmet Counties...
28 - Charlevoix Courier: Community".
"Charlevoix Courier".
Strang, prestige of the Michigan Mormons based on Beaver Island, presented the first version of the Charlevoix Journal." "In 1894, Will [Hampton] bought the Charlevoix Journal from his brother [Charles] and changed the name to the Charlevoix Courier Charlevoix Courier.
Levi Lewis, Charlevoix's first physician who had appeared in 1869, and served the improve for four decades.
Charlevoix Chamber of Commerce.
Charlevoix Courier.
In 1899, the Federal Revenue Cutter Service came to Charlevoix and erected a warehouse and wharf on the northeast side of the upper channel dominant into Pine Lake (renamed Lake Charlevoix in 1926).
In 1902 it was announced that a sugar beet factory would be erected in Charlevoix to the south of the D.
Seed warehouse, now the Foster Boat Works Association condominium, along the Lake Charlevoix shoreline at the intersection of the barns tracks and Stover Creek.
Construction began in August that year and was instead of in 1903, one of the biggest buildings ever constructed in the Lake Charlevoix basin.
In 1903 he accepted the Chief Engineer's post at a new sugar factory in Charlevoix, Michigan.
The Charlevoix factory floundered to turn into instead of because of exhausted funds.
"Charlevoix History".
Machinery from the factory at Charlevoix, Mich., is to be used for its equipment.
The Charlevoix Sugar Company's factory nearing culmination...
Charlevoix Courier.
"Charlevoix County 1930 plat (Hayes Twp)".
"History of Castle Farms in Charlevoix, Michigan | Castle Farms History".
Pine Lake, retitled Lake Charlevoix in 1926 "Camp Charlevoix alumnus reunite".
Charlevoix Courier News.
"THE HISTORY OF CAMP CHARLEVOIX: The Character Camp For Boys".
Camp Charlevoix.
"Camp Charlevoix -- "A Character Camp for Boys" at Charlevoix Michigan" (weekly (thursday)) (Volume 21 -- No 6).
Today, Charlevoix's Venetian Festival is the city's highlight of the busy summer season "Charlevoix Historical Society - Charlevoix, Michigan".
"Kiwanis Club of Charlevoix Michigan Website".
"The Weathervane Inn, in foreground on right, was the homely Argo Mill, below, until it came into the grasp of Earl Young's love affair with the beauty of boulders, ever-changing Lake Michigan, the majesty of sea gull flight and other natural wonders of Charlevoix.".
Redlands, California: Redlands Daily Facts, United Press International, Unarmed B-52 crashes into Lake Michigan, January 8, 1971, page one.
"For Lease: Charlevoix Commons" (PDF).
"Charlevoix Country Club reopens as semi-private, under new ownership".
With school out, the Ramseys repaired in June to Charlevoix, where they have summered since 1992 "Charlevoix Group tries to stop assembly of Wal-Mart".
"Visit Charlevoix, Michigan | Charlevoix the Beautiful! "Historical Collections - Earl Young - Boulder Architect - Charlevoix the Beautiful".
"Wander Charlevoix's Castle Farms - My - North.com".
Climate Summary for Charlevoix, Michigan "Charlevoix City Council puts fireplace universal on hold".
Charlevoix, Michigan.
Charlevoix Area Chamber of commerce, with links, calendar of affairs Charlevoix County Website Charlevoix Historical Society Municipalities and communities of Charlevoix County, Michigan, United States
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