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WITH WALLOON LAKE MICHIGAN
HOLDING
"A PERFECT BODY OF WATER"
The Foot
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WITH WALLOON LAKE MICHIGAN
HOLDING
"A PERFECT BODY OF WATER"
The Foot
The Arms And Shores
Parts Unknown
Other Extensions
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RECENT WEB SITE ADDITIONS:
Walloon resident Dawn Sarasin is providing progress photos of the construction of the Renwick Building to be posted as a slideshow, continuously to be updated. The slideshow of The Renwick Building progress can be accessed by clicking HERE and scrolling to the bottom of the web page.
Click HERE to view the slideshow of the 18 February 2023 Walloon Lake Winterfest Activities.
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Walloon resident Dawn Sarasin is providing progress photos of the construction of the Renwick Building to be posted as a slideshow, continuously to be updated. The slideshow of The Renwick Building progress can be accessed by clicking HERE and scrolling to the bottom of the web page.
Click HERE to view the slideshow of the 18 February 2023 Walloon Lake Winterfest Activities.
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~ Other Names For Walloon Lake ~
Walloon Lake was once known as Bear Lake.
Before it was Bear Lake, however, the lake had an Indian name of Muhqua Nebis, which meant "bear" and "water".
The Village of Walloon Lake "The Foot" was once known as Talcott.
Walloon Lake was once known as Bear Lake.
Before it was Bear Lake, however, the lake had an Indian name of Muhqua Nebis, which meant "bear" and "water".
The Village of Walloon Lake "The Foot" was once known as Talcott.
Posted only by Permission from Drone Photographer Charles Dawley
Photo Above: Welcome to the World of the Village of Walloon Lake as it sits at The Foot of a Perfect Body of Water!
~ 18 May 2015 ~
More of Charles Dawley's remarkable videos and photography can be viewed on his
Drone Photography from Charles Dawley facebook page.
~ 18 May 2015 ~
More of Charles Dawley's remarkable videos and photography can be viewed on his
Drone Photography from Charles Dawley facebook page.
To ALL who have a Walloon Lake association,
I pay tribute... by creating this web site of a place held close to my heart, a place to stash so many
"WALLOON LAKE MICHIGAN WANDERINGS"
that we wanderers may always find a way back...
~ Karla Howard Buckmaster ~
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl
I pay tribute... by creating this web site of a place held close to my heart, a place to stash so many
"WALLOON LAKE MICHIGAN WANDERINGS"
that we wanderers may always find a way back...
~ Karla Howard Buckmaster ~
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl
A TIME To Remember... Walloon Lake
8 June 2014 ~ Walloon Lake as seen from over the Village of Walloon Lake
Photo Credit: Odalaigh
8 July 1908 ~ The Daily Resorter & Petoskey Evening News
Any viewers of this web site with comments, or photos to submit,
PLEASE contact this web master by clicking HERE.
A PLACE To Hold Memories
Photo Above: 1909 Photograph Album cover from a booklet of Walloon Lake photographs which Dean (a grandson to Lucy Bacon Wheaton) and Marna Wheaton who have given me permission to post the photos only on this "Walloon Lake Wanderings" website. ~ Karla Howard Buckmaster
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Picturesque Walloon Published 1911
Village of Walloon Lake Zip Code: 49796
Walloon Lake is surrounded by two counties... Charlevoix County and Emmet County.
Walloon Lake is surrounded by five townships... Melrose, Evangeline, Bay, Resort, and Bear Creek.
The Village of Walloon Lake (The Foot) is in Melrose Township.
In 1874 when the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad came through, the stop was named Melrose for MEL ROSE. Mel Rose had been an early local surveyor.
The above township name according to:
Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More...
Village of Walloon Lake Zip Code: 49796
Walloon Lake is surrounded by two counties... Charlevoix County and Emmet County.
Walloon Lake is surrounded by five townships... Melrose, Evangeline, Bay, Resort, and Bear Creek.
The Village of Walloon Lake (The Foot) is in Melrose Township.
In 1874 when the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad came through, the stop was named Melrose for MEL ROSE. Mel Rose had been an early local surveyor.
The above township name according to:
Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More...
7 June 1899 ~ The Petoskey Recorder
Walloon Lake, an inland lake with many miles of shore line, being the 26th largest lake in Michigan, was once known as Bear Lake. Before it was Bear Lake, however, the lake had an Indian name of Muhqua Nebis, which meant "bear" and "water". As early as 1841 Charles W. Cathcart, had actually recorded the lake as Walloon Lake, but even after that, the lake continued to be called Bear Lake, verified by the above article. A Mr. Talcott had platted the village in 1884. So, Talcott was said to have been the name of the village on the lake, before the lake's name was changed once again, finally to Walloon Lake.
Once the name of the post office was changed from Talcott to Walloon Lake on 22 September 1900, then the name of the village became Walloon Lake... it was then, as well, that the name of the lake changed from Bear Lake to Walloon Lake.
The 1942 obituary for Alfred Elwood Hass, a pioneer resident, credits Mr. Hass with his efforts for changing the name of the lake from Bear Lake to Walloon Lake. Mr. Hass was prominent in the affairs of the village, having served as Postmaster, storekeeper, shipbuilder and owner of the water works. As a storekeeper having trouble with shipments because the village was then called Bear Lake like two other Michigan villages of the same name, Mr. Hass was instrumental in having the village name changed to Walloon Lake.
As stated in a book about Charlevoix County Ghost Towns as related to Talcott... In 1905 the population of Walloon Lake was 300, and it was noted as a summer resort by then, accessible by the G.R.&I. (Grand Rapids and Indiana) Railroad. Walloon Lake had then in 1905, 3 hotels, boarding house, depot and railway station, general stores, cottages, bath house, and The Eclipse Boat Works; manufacturers of small gasoline launches and clinker row boats. Also livery stables, ice cream manufacturer, photographer and school were noted. When Walloon Lake resident Pinky McCutcheon was only 12 years old, in 1954, the Village of Walloon Lake had 215 people. She counted the people herself by drawing a map with every house and noting the number of inhabitants in them. She also indicated the cats and dogs. Pinky recently joked that doing a village census, was something a 12-year-old might do in the Fall or Spring when not much was going on in Walloon Lake in those days!
The outline of Walloon Lake is very irregular and its shoreline measures 29 to 30.5 miles. The lake is approximately nine miles in length with an area of about 4320 acres. The depths of the lake vary to a maximum of 100 feet, and an average depth of 29 feet. Walloon Lake is fed by springs and rainfall so the water is clear and cold, with just a few small streams, like Schoof's in the North Arm and Fineout in the South Arm, feeding into the lake. The northern end of the West Arm of Walloon Lake lies only about a mile from Little Traverse Bay, but with no outlet there and only the wetlands of Mud Lake as it is known, feeding in at that end of Walloon Lake. Walloon Lake is higher, by about 80 to 100 feet, than Lake Michigan, so it empties near "The Foot" of Walloon Lake, over a dam, via Bear River which winds its way for about 14 to 15 miles into Lake Michigan in downtown Petoskey. Walloon Lake, in general, runs in a NW-SE direction. That dam evoked many disputes especially in the early 1900s because the dam determined the lake levels either to the liking of the lake landowners or the business persons who used the river for running their logs into the Petoskey mills. Finally, the dam disputes were settled in 1916 by the District Court, so the dam is owned and maintained by Melrose Township.
A 7 September 1963 Petoskey News Review article written by Jim Doherty told a different number of acres than the 4320 acres mentioned above. Jim Doherty wrote: "Of the 5,487 acres of Walloon Lake, 1864 acres are in Emmet county and 3,623 in Charlevoix County." His information was from a survey made by Dr. C.R. Humphrys, Michigan State University resource development researcher.
The map in the Upland Societies of Petoskey-Walloon Lake Region book on page 29 shows the location of Walloon Lake with the flow of the Bear River running into Little Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. Years ago when the Bear River Canoe Race was an exciting event, the race was supposed to have been 18 miles long for the boys and men. The girls started at Walbmeme/Wau-meme/Wabmeme from which the distance was thought to have been 6 miles from there to the Stadium Bridge on Standish Avenue in Petoskey MI. Don Simons, 90 years old in 2014, provided this spelling for Walbmeme. He attended school in the now non-existent Walbmeme logging village. Don's teacher was Mrs. Robinson. James Whitfield, Sr., spelled the name as Wau-meme. Other news articles have spelled the name as Wabmemee, with the double "e" on the end. Walloon Lake resident Ken Klumpp tells that he and friend Ed Schroeder participated in the Bear River Canoe race, and they broke both paddles.
Once the name of the post office was changed from Talcott to Walloon Lake on 22 September 1900, then the name of the village became Walloon Lake... it was then, as well, that the name of the lake changed from Bear Lake to Walloon Lake.
The 1942 obituary for Alfred Elwood Hass, a pioneer resident, credits Mr. Hass with his efforts for changing the name of the lake from Bear Lake to Walloon Lake. Mr. Hass was prominent in the affairs of the village, having served as Postmaster, storekeeper, shipbuilder and owner of the water works. As a storekeeper having trouble with shipments because the village was then called Bear Lake like two other Michigan villages of the same name, Mr. Hass was instrumental in having the village name changed to Walloon Lake.
As stated in a book about Charlevoix County Ghost Towns as related to Talcott... In 1905 the population of Walloon Lake was 300, and it was noted as a summer resort by then, accessible by the G.R.&I. (Grand Rapids and Indiana) Railroad. Walloon Lake had then in 1905, 3 hotels, boarding house, depot and railway station, general stores, cottages, bath house, and The Eclipse Boat Works; manufacturers of small gasoline launches and clinker row boats. Also livery stables, ice cream manufacturer, photographer and school were noted. When Walloon Lake resident Pinky McCutcheon was only 12 years old, in 1954, the Village of Walloon Lake had 215 people. She counted the people herself by drawing a map with every house and noting the number of inhabitants in them. She also indicated the cats and dogs. Pinky recently joked that doing a village census, was something a 12-year-old might do in the Fall or Spring when not much was going on in Walloon Lake in those days!
The outline of Walloon Lake is very irregular and its shoreline measures 29 to 30.5 miles. The lake is approximately nine miles in length with an area of about 4320 acres. The depths of the lake vary to a maximum of 100 feet, and an average depth of 29 feet. Walloon Lake is fed by springs and rainfall so the water is clear and cold, with just a few small streams, like Schoof's in the North Arm and Fineout in the South Arm, feeding into the lake. The northern end of the West Arm of Walloon Lake lies only about a mile from Little Traverse Bay, but with no outlet there and only the wetlands of Mud Lake as it is known, feeding in at that end of Walloon Lake. Walloon Lake is higher, by about 80 to 100 feet, than Lake Michigan, so it empties near "The Foot" of Walloon Lake, over a dam, via Bear River which winds its way for about 14 to 15 miles into Lake Michigan in downtown Petoskey. Walloon Lake, in general, runs in a NW-SE direction. That dam evoked many disputes especially in the early 1900s because the dam determined the lake levels either to the liking of the lake landowners or the business persons who used the river for running their logs into the Petoskey mills. Finally, the dam disputes were settled in 1916 by the District Court, so the dam is owned and maintained by Melrose Township.
A 7 September 1963 Petoskey News Review article written by Jim Doherty told a different number of acres than the 4320 acres mentioned above. Jim Doherty wrote: "Of the 5,487 acres of Walloon Lake, 1864 acres are in Emmet county and 3,623 in Charlevoix County." His information was from a survey made by Dr. C.R. Humphrys, Michigan State University resource development researcher.
The map in the Upland Societies of Petoskey-Walloon Lake Region book on page 29 shows the location of Walloon Lake with the flow of the Bear River running into Little Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. Years ago when the Bear River Canoe Race was an exciting event, the race was supposed to have been 18 miles long for the boys and men. The girls started at Walbmeme/Wau-meme/Wabmeme from which the distance was thought to have been 6 miles from there to the Stadium Bridge on Standish Avenue in Petoskey MI. Don Simons, 90 years old in 2014, provided this spelling for Walbmeme. He attended school in the now non-existent Walbmeme logging village. Don's teacher was Mrs. Robinson. James Whitfield, Sr., spelled the name as Wau-meme. Other news articles have spelled the name as Wabmemee, with the double "e" on the end. Walloon Lake resident Ken Klumpp tells that he and friend Ed Schroeder participated in the Bear River Canoe race, and they broke both paddles.
The Petoskey Evening News newspaper photo below shows a sign promoting the second annual Walloon-Petoskey Canoe Race in 1952. Louisa Taylor had this newspaper article which had become scrunched over the years. Louisa told that, like the names hand written on the article, Nancy Cotanche, Louisa Taylor, and Sandy Hand, Walloon Lake youngsters would borrow a canoe from Ted McCutcheon Sr., paddle from his quonset hut marina to the Walloon Lake outlet, portage over the road, and head down the Bear River. Louisa said that Ted McCutcheon had hand carved a small canoe with three figures in the canoe, representing the three girls, Nancy, Louisa, and Sandy, much the size as seen in the newspaper photo. Louisa wonders if the carved canoe might still exist?
1952 ~ Submitted by Louisa Taylor
10 April 1952 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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13 May 1952 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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The photo below includes: Barb Burns, Ted McCutcheon Jr., and Pinky McCutcheon
canoeing down the Bear River near where the river flows from the Walloon Lake outlet.
Notice the snow on the hillside.
Spring 1956 ~ Photo taken by Ted McCutcheon Sr.
Location of Walloon Lake on Interactive Google Map
As shown on the map below, it is Highway 75 which runs through the Village of Walloon Lake.
1910 Article Below: In 2014, the length of the lake is usually accepted as being about 9 miles long...
23 July 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News
18 July 1912 ~ Petoskey Evening News
This postcard of a map of Walloon Lake hung on the wall of Alva Frank Starr's gas station at "The Foot" of Walloon Lake.
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The miles of shoreline listed on the postcard above, at 54 miles is questionable. Most references today put the shoreline in the range of 29 to 30 miles. Also, the only people I know of, or have ever heard of, walking the distance around the shoreline of Walloon Lake are Barb Burns and Pinky McCutcheon (Documented in the local newspaper in photo right, and two photos below). Before the journey, Barb and Pinky's mothers bought them hamburgers for nourishment from Kenny and Marion Starr's Sail-Inn Grill right beside the Walloon Lake public beach. Pinky and Barb made the trek at 13 years old, in June of 1956, and stuck to the shoreline except when they came to swamps... and, who could blame them, as the swamps were treacherous. They walked the distance in THREE days!
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Beginning, on the public beach, their trek around Walloon Lake... Barb Burns and Pinky McCutcheon
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6 June 1956 ~ Petoskey News Review
Our 1956 Walk Around Walloon Lake ~ Looking Back From 27 April 2015
"Barb and I had no choice but to walk miles out of our way in order to avoid the swamps along Walloon Lake. We would stop when we couldn't walk any further on the shore and hike up hills through fields and woods, then doubling back to the closest reachable point to where we had been forced to leave the shore. The worst was the large swamp at the end of the North Arm. Bear in mind, we started on June 1. The water was very cold on that date. We weren't taking any shortcuts by wading. We waded whenever the woods became too thick and impassable near the shore. The coast still had stretches of undeveloped forest. I still think it was one of the best things we ever did. Although we now know the distance around the lakeshore measures 30.5 miles and officially includes Mud Lake, we walked further. We were a bit worried at the prospect of walking around Mud Lake, but the land around it was flat and not difficult at all, and I'm glad we included it. Our canvas Topsiders served us well even though I recall plenty of blisters." ~ Pinky McCutcheon (27 April 2015)
31 August 2017 ~ Pinky McCutcheon on right, ready for another walk along the Walloon Lake Shoreline with her longtime Walloon Lake friend Rosemary Renwick James
Walloon Lake holds about 4000 acres of surface water...
plenty of room for water activities, shorelines to fill with cottages and homes to enjoy, and places of business to patronize.
Used postcard from 1989 of The Foot at Walloon Lake with the North Arm and the West Arm showing... with Lake Michigan at the top of the horizon line
~ Muh-quh-Se-bing OR The Bear Walks ~
“Many, many years before white men came to live in the great forest of northern Michigan the beautiful blue lake several miles southwest of La Petit Traverse was called Muh-quh-Se-bing by the Indians who hunted for game in the forest. These Indians were Ottawas and Ojibways, friendly tribes who had lived together in peace for more than a hundred years. They also gave the winding, twisting creek carrying the overflow water from the lake to La Petiti Traverse the same name because to them it was where ‘the bear walks,’ literally where there were plenty of bear to be had for the hunting beside the running water.
Muhquh Sebing was only a small part of a larger country called at times Tonadagona, and at other times Kashkauko, by the white men many miles away who settled such matters and made the maps. White men have a strange habit of just walking into another man’s country and changing things around to suit themselves.
Well that’s the way it must have been about the name they gave to this northern forest. The old chief, Kashkauko, never lived in the Muquh Sebing country, though some of his relatives did. But they were good Indians, while Kashkauko was a very bad man whom the white judges had decided would have to be hung, but the legend is that he took his own life instead. However, it was not long before Kashkauko too was changed for another name.
This time another man who lived on an island in Lake Michigan called the Big Beaver, where he attempted to form a permanent Mormon colony, decided that he wanted to call the forest Emmet, because he was an Irishman and was fond of the poet Robert Emmet. As he had gotten himself elected to the Michigan legislature he persuaded the people at Lansing, the State capital, to call the forest Emmet County, including most of what are now known by several other county names bordering on the present Emmet County. This man was the first real politician in Emmet County. His name was James J. Strang, bu he called himself King Strang, and he really wanted to found a kingdom instead of a colony. The project was defeated by his assassination by a follower whom he had flogged for disobedience.”
~ When Michigan Was Young by Ethel Rowan Fasquelle (1867-1987) of Petoskey, Michigan, published in 1950 when Fasquelle was 83 years old ~ Pages 138 and 139
Muhquh Sebing was only a small part of a larger country called at times Tonadagona, and at other times Kashkauko, by the white men many miles away who settled such matters and made the maps. White men have a strange habit of just walking into another man’s country and changing things around to suit themselves.
Well that’s the way it must have been about the name they gave to this northern forest. The old chief, Kashkauko, never lived in the Muquh Sebing country, though some of his relatives did. But they were good Indians, while Kashkauko was a very bad man whom the white judges had decided would have to be hung, but the legend is that he took his own life instead. However, it was not long before Kashkauko too was changed for another name.
This time another man who lived on an island in Lake Michigan called the Big Beaver, where he attempted to form a permanent Mormon colony, decided that he wanted to call the forest Emmet, because he was an Irishman and was fond of the poet Robert Emmet. As he had gotten himself elected to the Michigan legislature he persuaded the people at Lansing, the State capital, to call the forest Emmet County, including most of what are now known by several other county names bordering on the present Emmet County. This man was the first real politician in Emmet County. His name was James J. Strang, bu he called himself King Strang, and he really wanted to found a kingdom instead of a colony. The project was defeated by his assassination by a follower whom he had flogged for disobedience.”
~ When Michigan Was Young by Ethel Rowan Fasquelle (1867-1987) of Petoskey, Michigan, published in 1950 when Fasquelle was 83 years old ~ Pages 138 and 139
Chief Petoskey
Also of interest, with the name of Walloon Lake once having been called Bear Lake or Muhqua meaning bear, is a section quoted from the "Correspondence of the Detroit Post, August 26, 1874" in an article titled "A Flying Trip to Mackinac and return--The North Shore of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan". It sheds light on the name of Bear Lake, as well as nearby Petoskey, originally known as Bear Creek because of the Bear Creek emptying from Walloon Lake into Little Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. The article lends a flavor for life in the area in 1874.
"Leaving Detroit on the afternoon of the 17th, via Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Railroad, we were joined at Ionia by a few friends, and after ten hours' rest in a Pullman sleeper, we found ourselves at Petoskey, the terminal railway station on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway, where close connections are made with steamers for Mackinaw.
The location of this small village is, to the tourist at first sight, an uninviting one, being situated in a dense wilderness, and inhabited mostly by Indians. There are but few white families in the place, who have since the completion of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, built up a few frame dwellings of an inferior construction. The place derives its name from an old Indian residing here named Petoskey, which translated means, 'Elk Killer.' 'Muhquhba,' which means 'Bear,' is the name of an old Indian chief quartered here, and who formerly reigned 'Big Injun' over the Ottawa tribe, and whom we had the good fortune to meet and talk with, through an interpreter. He says he is seventy-five years of age - cannot speak a word of English, but his family, comprising twelve sons and two daughters, all speak the English language fluently. He is not now regarded as 'chief,' but in a moral and intellectual sense he still reigns supreme. He is an ardent and devoted member of the Methodist Church, and exercises a good influence over most of the Indians in this county."
By 19 June 1885 the "Death of Ignatius Petoskey The Chippewa Chief" was printed in the Petoskey newspaper Emmet County Democrat. For whatever reason, the translation of Pe-te-se-ga had been romanticized from "Elk Killer" to "Rising Sun". "By his knowledge and consent, the spelling and pronunciation was slightly changed, and Petoskey has from that time been recognized by the family as their name." Although Chief Petoskey had been born in 1787 on the banks of the Manistee River, near where Manistee, Michigan, now stands, he spent most of his life in Petoskey, nearby to the area of Walloon Lake. A large boulder was set to mark Chief Petoskey's gravesite in Greenwood Cemetery in Petoskey, Michigan.
"Leaving Detroit on the afternoon of the 17th, via Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Railroad, we were joined at Ionia by a few friends, and after ten hours' rest in a Pullman sleeper, we found ourselves at Petoskey, the terminal railway station on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway, where close connections are made with steamers for Mackinaw.
The location of this small village is, to the tourist at first sight, an uninviting one, being situated in a dense wilderness, and inhabited mostly by Indians. There are but few white families in the place, who have since the completion of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, built up a few frame dwellings of an inferior construction. The place derives its name from an old Indian residing here named Petoskey, which translated means, 'Elk Killer.' 'Muhquhba,' which means 'Bear,' is the name of an old Indian chief quartered here, and who formerly reigned 'Big Injun' over the Ottawa tribe, and whom we had the good fortune to meet and talk with, through an interpreter. He says he is seventy-five years of age - cannot speak a word of English, but his family, comprising twelve sons and two daughters, all speak the English language fluently. He is not now regarded as 'chief,' but in a moral and intellectual sense he still reigns supreme. He is an ardent and devoted member of the Methodist Church, and exercises a good influence over most of the Indians in this county."
By 19 June 1885 the "Death of Ignatius Petoskey The Chippewa Chief" was printed in the Petoskey newspaper Emmet County Democrat. For whatever reason, the translation of Pe-te-se-ga had been romanticized from "Elk Killer" to "Rising Sun". "By his knowledge and consent, the spelling and pronunciation was slightly changed, and Petoskey has from that time been recognized by the family as their name." Although Chief Petoskey had been born in 1787 on the banks of the Manistee River, near where Manistee, Michigan, now stands, he spent most of his life in Petoskey, nearby to the area of Walloon Lake. A large boulder was set to mark Chief Petoskey's gravesite in Greenwood Cemetery in Petoskey, Michigan.
The Early Home Of Old Chief Petoskey Built In 1867 Petoskey MI
Submitted from the Collection of Ross Renwick
UP-NORTH REFLECTIONS, A Photograhic History of the Little Traverse Bay Area page 63 ~ A supplement to be purchased from The Petoskey News Review
~ Old Timers Tell Walloon Lake History ~
Text under above photo that accompanied the article below about the Old Timers Tell Walloon Lake History: "WALLOON LAKE is known to thousands for its summer attractions, but how many have seen the village as it appears in winter? Here, from a plane piloted by Oliver DuChane, Lou Laughlin took this winter scene. Walloon has a long history. The Review went to many old timers to get the facts for this article" (below).
Submitted from the Collection of Mary Erb ~ Northern Michigan Review, but no date
2 October 1946 ~ Petoskey Evening News
James C. Whitfield, Sr. (1902 ~ 1992) has written booklets telling about the history of Walloon Lake as he knew it: My "Ancient" History of Walloon (no date), Pre-"Ancient" History of Walloon (written in 1987) and GEMS revised. The information in his booklets is valuable as a preservation of Walloon Lake's history as related to his family, and his memories. Throughout this website, when text is shown in this very color, the information will have been gleaned from the writings and booklets of James C. Whitfield, Sr. The contents of the booklets were submitted by Mary Whitfield Erb, the daughter of James C. Whitfield, Sr., with permission for the text to be printed on this website only.
Barbara (Ice) Smith, wife of Phillip David Smith, wrote her book (published 2011) titled We Took the HIGH Road, about their travels around the world with a long reminiscent chapter dedicated to their time spent on Walloon Lake. Barbara dedicated her book to her descendants of great-grandchildren, grandchildren, and three children: Scott, Deby, and Trammel. The memories written in Barbara’s book could be those memories of all who have come in contact with Walloon Lake. Throughout this website, when text is shown in this very color, the information will have been gleaned from the writings of Barbara Smith. The content of her book was submitted by Scott Smith, the son of Barbara and Phillip Smith, with permission for the text and photos to be printed on this website only.
Barbara's Wilhoit grandparents were Charles C. 1875-1950 and Lou "Wisehart" Wilhoit 1874-1956. Their daughter Catharine Elmira Wilhoit 1898-1975 married Trammel Morton Ice 1895-1976. Catharine and Trammel Ice were the parents of son Dick b. 1923 and daughter Barbara Ice 1925-2011 who married Phillip David Smith 1922-2007.
Barbara's Wilhoit grandparents were Charles C. 1875-1950 and Lou "Wisehart" Wilhoit 1874-1956. Their daughter Catharine Elmira Wilhoit 1898-1975 married Trammel Morton Ice 1895-1976. Catharine and Trammel Ice were the parents of son Dick b. 1923 and daughter Barbara Ice 1925-2011 who married Phillip David Smith 1922-2007.
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