Michigan's Big Prairie Desert
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2022
- Just over a decade after Michigan became a state, it had its first "dustbowl". Local's called it the "largest desert east of the Mississippi". It wasn't a real desert - it had plenty of rainfall, but was a sand wasteland that grew for decades.
Here's the story of Michigan's "Big Prairie Desert"
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well ....... I'm heading up there this weekend and knowing this will help me enjoy it more. Thanks!
Have fun!
Wow! I grew up in Newaygo county in the old county seat,Newaygo. We had huge ache-rages of pine trees. As a teenager we farmed/cut some for Christmas trees. We swam on the Muskegon river where often logs would pop up as the river was a tributery to float logs that were cut down for the timber industry. They were rolled down a hill called the "high roll away" into the river.
My brother owns some property up there & my uncle had a potato farm up there as well, just a few miles outside the prairie. It's a pretty interesting area of michigan. Before those dams up there were the biggest in the world for some time & were one of the factors that made michigan a manufacturing silicone Valley so to speak in the early 1900s.
Tuscola County still has that today. From Mayyville to Caro to Deford, and Kingston. That is why that area still is woods and not crop farmed to this day. It does grow grass enough to support cows but not good crops. I used to call it the desert between the lakes.
I have lived in this state of Michigan for nearly 80 years and I never ever heard about this place or this story ! I have learned a lot from your channel since I found it last fall some time I think ! Hope you can keep up with these interesting and fun videos ! I really liked your big lake and light house stories as well ! I am subscribed since the first video I watched . Which I think was the one about Spectacle Reef Light . Thanks for posting these videos !
Very cool! Thanks for hanging in there with us. Although we've had the workshop project keeping us busy, we are back on the road checking out Michigan history. More to come.
I'd like to hear more about the Conscientious Objector Camp. I have never head of this.
Another awesome story
Love your channel. Thank You!
I live in Michigan and did not know about this
My mom's family has been there since the 1850's. As an elementary school student in the 1960's we took field trips to the prairie.
I love you guys!
Thanks for an interesting video with a positive outlook and for teaching an old Michigander things I didn’t know about my beloved state.
👍🏼 Some of those earlier 1930s photos look like Civilian Conservation Corps guys and a camp! The WPA and CCC projects were useful, and I am glad to see of the projects in the Midwest now being restored! Good story! 👍🏼😎✌🏼
This is going on the trivia list for our UP trip in a couple weeks.
Nice.
I learn something new about the people of this state all the time! Thanks Guys! God Bless!
Thanks for the video! My wife and I watched this tonight while camping in the back of the truck at Newaygo State Park. Small world! We love your channel!
LOL! Most awesome. It is a small world!
Love learning history about our State! And you both do it so well!!! Thank you!
Thanks so much!
Great history. Most people are not aware of this history. Thanks for taking the time to share and show it to us. :)
Thanks Ken! The history around so many places is pretty interesting.
Great job Ya-all! :)
Thanks 🙏🏼 ! Fantastic job ! I appreciate your videos! I enjoy learning about your green and great country! Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Greetings Erth!
And thanks for hanging around!
In addition to this channel, another good channel I subscribe to is @AlexisDahl - She takes a look at Michigan History from a science perspective. They both have lots of interesting videos with unique perspectives!
As usual, another great video! Thanks for the history lesson. We live just upstream a bit, near Rogers Dam. I'm definitely going to have to do some exploring over there.
Let us know if you find anything interesting! And thanks!
I love Michigan . I love the local historical places you guys go. Keep up the good work. God bless!
We live on 5 acres in Brooks township adjacent to "the prairie" as everyone around here knows it as.. Red pines and sand basically..
I grew up in big prairie township, as kids we Rhode our bikes or horses out to the desert to camp.
at that time there was a huge open area of sand still.
Wow! I spent nearly every summer in Silver Lake as a kid, going out on the huge dunes. I had no idea that the sand dunes went so far inland. I love how Y'all bring our history to life. It sure makes me miss Michigan.
Love your channel!
New subscriber here.
Here in Ionia County we have indigenous cacti growing along side of the roads. They look like yucca’s, each with a single, 4 foot high stalk with prolific white flowers on top.
We are technically in a desert here.
Prickly Pear Cactus? That's what I've always found in Michigan. Syrup sweet when fully ripe. My granddad knew exactly when to pick them. I haven't had that much success.
Love learning things from You guys.
I had no idea. That's crazy!! 😎
A great video and story.
Thank you!
Great story!!!!!!!
Quite interesting. Thank you for sharing this information.
I live right down the road from there. It is only about 2 miles down the road.
Nice job
Thanks!
Farer down the road to the east there still some of the ruins of buildings from the town of big Prairie and the old post office building is on elm. I used the live on baseline road and alot of my family is buried in that Cemetery to including my step father and grandfather. Glad you two did this story and hope some day you come back and do the history of white cloud and it's now gone neighbor allytown
very interesting, I never new this and i love michigan history, thanks tom from staffords
Tom! Thanks for the chat today!! And for stopping by the channel!
@@RestlessViking lots of interesting content on your channel.
Funny to think of the graves being buried.
😂 Agreed!
I was thinking that too. 😊
1:02 I'll bet that treaty was with American Indians.
8:35 The National Forests are managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service for multi-use. Recreation is one of those uses. The Forest Service has educational projects around the country. There is, for instance, the Lumberman's Monument and Visitor Center in the Huron National Forest located on the Au Sable River.
When I divide pi I like to have a slice for everyone.
Wow! I have 40 yrs of roots there, folks left me a place in the section immediately east. It's all in the "neighborhood" and have driven and walked the desert that still exists many times. I'm really interested in getting copies of all the maps you threw up in the video. One of them shows "Big Prairie P. O." which suggests an old post office across the street from me. You've inspired me to do some more research, thanks!!
Those maps, I believe are online. Also, I think I found them at the Newaygo Library, Local History section. Thanks for stopping by!
@@RestlessViking thx, i've already run across a number of them, will check the library when i return next month. : )
I was told about a fire that contributed also,
Learned a lot today. Never heard of this. One of the great history channels on Michigan. I'm enjoying your channel very much !!!!
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There a lot of bear in that area of newayago?
Did see any sign that day. But, have before.
This whole area of Michigan is undeveloped & kind of desolate. I live north of there but even my ground is sandy & full of gravel. The ground is not real condusive for farming. Trees were planted in my area too.