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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Rocky shoreline at Nelson Point, now in Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A small cottage is barely visible through the trees on the rocky shore at Nelson Point, now part of Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A well-dressed man identified as Uncle Rudolph Schenck takes in the view from a bluff overlooking the Fish Creek valley and harbor. There are houses and ou... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A footbridge crossing Fish Creek into Peninsula Stat Park. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A dirt road winds through Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Several boats are moored in the protected harbor. An old warehouse stands on a pier. A tall bluff and rock cliff dominates the opposite shoreline. |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | There is smoke damage to the bricks evident above the windows of the company store in this view of the ghost town of Fayette. To the right, with dormers, i... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Workers' houses stand in front of the Fayette Tourists Lodge. After the Jackson Iron Company left in 1891, Fayette became a tourist destination and is now ... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man looks across Snail Shell Harbor at the remains of the Jackson Iron Company works. The large furnace complex is visible through the tree... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the abandoned town of Fayette. Snail Shell Harbor is in the foreground, with a low warehouse along the boat dock and empty buildings on th... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the abandoned Jackson Iron Company furnace complex at Fayette, on the shore of Snail Shell Harbor. Lake Michigan is in the background. |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Four men with their collars turned up against the cold stand beside the Fayette Tourists Lodge. The Fayette post office was housed in the building. On the ... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | A car is parked alongside the hotel in Fayette. Four men pose near the front porch. As advertised by a large sign, the hotel housed the Fayette Post Office... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Dolomite cliffs along Snail Shell Harbor are seen in the background between the ruined buildings of the company store, left, and the machine shop on the gr... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Abandoned workers' houses stand along the shore of Lake Michigan. The Fayette Tourists Lodge is on the far left. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Winter scene from Egg Harbor Road (Highway 42) in Fish Creek looking north toward frozen Fish Creek Harbor with the bluffs in Peninsula State Park beyond. ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A rustic foot bridge over Fish Creek connects Peninsula State Park (foreground) with the village of Fish Creek. The Vits house is at the right end of the b... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from the Vits property, looking east, across a rustic foot bridge over Fish Creek leading to Peninsula State Park. A dachshund rests in the middle of ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view, looking north, from the Hotz family compound near the bluff entrance to Fish Creek. Evergreens and bare birch trees stand in the foreground,... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View looking north over Fish Creek Bay, with Hen Island and Peninsula State Park in the background. There is snow on the ground, and evergreens and bare bi... |
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