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The Manistee County connection to the first Best Picture winner
With the Vogue Theatre showing 1927’s epic film, “Wings” (directed by William Wellman) for this Wednesday’s (March 8) classic film...
manisteemuseum
Mar 4, 20233 min read


Lumber Camp versus Saw Mill
Many, even with a passing history of Manistee, have heard of the many saw mills around Manistee Lake and the channel out to Lake Michigan....
Kurt Schindler
Feb 4, 20233 min read


"The life story of a glass, or a bottle of beer as produced in the local brewery" in 1937
A view of the Chippewa Brewing Company circa late 1930s. In April of 1937 it was announced that Manistee’s brewery was to be reopened...
Mark Fedder
Nov 26, 20225 min read


City taxes from a century ago
(The Fowler Building, formerly located at the southwest corner of Water and Maple street, were once home to city offices. We, in the...
Kurt Schindler
Oct 8, 20222 min read
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