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                <text>LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS&#13;
PENINSULA COMMUNITY LIBRARY&#13;
2893 Island View Road Traverse City, MI 49686&#13;
&#13;
Creator: Peninsula Township residents, Government, and 501c3&#13;
organizations&#13;
Title: Peninsula Historic Sites and Church records&#13;
Inclusive dates: 1820-2022&#13;
Bulk dates: 1860-1997&#13;
Extent: 8.5 linear feet&#13;
Call number: LHC 007 Pcl&#13;
&#13;
Language: Material is in English&#13;
Acquisition: Anonymous donation.&#13;
Accruals: Periodic additions to the collection are expected.&#13;
Access: The collection is open without restriction.&#13;
Photographs: Volume 4, Volume 5, Box 1,Box 2, Box 4, Box 5, Box 6,&#13;
Box 7, Drawer 2 (Folder 2)&#13;
A-V Material: None.&#13;
Digital Material: https://localhistory.tadl.org/collections/show/37&#13;
https://localhistory.tadl.org/collections/show/44&#13;
Copyright: Copyright is held by the Peninsula Community Library.&#13;
Copyright for oral histories held by creators.&#13;
Processed By: Amy Barritt 2013, 2014, 2017, Mary Morgan 2020, 2021,&#13;
Ted Arnold/Mary Morgan 2022, Mary Morgan 2023,2024&#13;
&#13;
Abstract&#13;
The Peninsula Historic Sites and Church records include records created or collected by&#13;
the Township government, Township residents, and members of 501c3 organizations,&#13;
to formalize the history of the township’s Historic Sites and Churches and the people&#13;
that have owned, worked, volunteered, or restored these sites. Series in the collection&#13;
are: American Legion Post 399, Church Histories, Dougherty Historic Home Site,&#13;
Hessler Log Cabin, Mission Log Church, Mission Point Lighthouse, Old Mission&#13;
Peninsula Historical Society, Periodicals, Porter House, and Reports.&#13;
History&#13;
There are numerous historic sites located on the Peninsula that are owned by the&#13;
Peninsula Township Government. These include:&#13;
● The Mission Point Lighthouse - resurrected from 15 years of abandonment by a&#13;
group of Peninsula residents who collected monies in 1948 to purchase and preserve it.&#13;
Originally built in 1870. Today it is surrounded by five acres of wooded Township land&#13;
(purchased after WWII) and hundreds of acres of State land, all with miles of trails.&#13;
● The adjoining Hessler Log Cabin - a log home that was built in the 1854-1856&#13;
timeframe in the southern part of the Old Mission Peninsula by early settlers&#13;
Mary and Joseph Hessler. It was conceived to be moved to the Lighthouse Park&#13;
in 1992, and was actually moved, repaired and furnished during 1993-1997.&#13;
● The Peter Dougherty House &amp; Historic Site – named for Peter Dougherty, a&#13;
Presbyterian missionary minister who arrived in 1839 to establish a church and&#13;
school for the Native Americans who inhabited the area. This area became&#13;
known as Old Mission. The site contained a church, schoolhouse, bark houses,&#13;
and cabins, as well as a frame house that was built in 1842 by Native Americans&#13;
to house Reverend Dougherty and his family. Built of hemlock, it was the first&#13;
frame house in Northwest Lower Michigan north of Grand Rapids.&#13;
● The Mission Church, which is a reproduction church, built in 1939 to&#13;
commemorate the Centennial.&#13;
These government owned sites have been assisted in their preservation by 501(c)(3)&#13;
volunteer supported organizations, including the Peter Dougherty Society, the Old&#13;
Mission Peninsula Historical Society (founded in 1992 by a core group of citizens&#13;
concerned about saving the Hessler Log House), and the Mission Point Lighthouse&#13;
Friends (2014-2019).&#13;
Other privately owned historic locations include the Old Mission Inn (previously known&#13;
as Hedden Hall and the Porter House), the Neahtawanta Inn, and the Old Mission&#13;
General Store (previously known as Lardie’s Grocery).&#13;
&#13;
The Peninsula also is home to numerous churches, including the St. Joseph Catholic&#13;
Church and the Old Mission Peninsula United Methodist Church (formerly known as the&#13;
Ogdensburg United Methodist Church). Both churches started out as much smaller&#13;
country churches but are now housed in more modern structures in order to&#13;
accommodate their growing congregations. Other churches include the Old Mission&#13;
Congregational Church, the First Congregational Church, and the Unitarian Universalist&#13;
Congregation of Grand Traverse.&#13;
&#13;
Scope and Content Note&#13;
American Legion Post 399 includes a digital talk about the history of the Legion Hall,&#13;
located in Old Mission, on the corner of Swaney Road and Traverse Street. Originally&#13;
built in 1898 as a clubhouse for the Knights of the Macabees. It was deeded in 1926 to&#13;
Peninsula Township School District and used as a Community Building until 1962, at&#13;
which time it passed into the hands of the American Legion. It was rebuilt in the 1990’s,&#13;
due to a fire that burned down the original building.&#13;
Church Histories include the history published by concerned members of the St.&#13;
Joseph’s Catholic Church to record the history of the institution, and scattered records&#13;
and photographs of the Ogdensburg United Methodist Church. Also documents&#13;
associated with Old Mission Congregational Church. Digital talk on these churches,&#13;
plus the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse and the now defunct&#13;
Swedish Church, including physical photographs.&#13;
Dougherty Historic Home Site includes history about the Peter Dougherty homestead&#13;
and mission site, as well as information about the Peter Dougherty Pier archaeological&#13;
site. The Pier, which was located 1⁄2 mile south of what is today known as Haserot&#13;
Beach, was built in the early 1840’s. It opened up trade with fur merchants from&#13;
Mackinac, as well as provided a means for bringing in supplies that were given in&#13;
exchange for furs provided by the Indians.&#13;
Hessler Log Cabin is a sequential collection of documents and photographs kept by&#13;
Julianne Meyers, from the Old Mission Peninsula Historical Society (OMPHS). The&#13;
information spans the timeframe from when the idea was conceived to move the cabin&#13;
to the Lighthouse Park (1992) to the dedication ceremony of the Historical Marker on&#13;
August 18, 2001. Includes upkeep duties of the Township vs OMPHS, history of the&#13;
cabin and history of its restoration, as well as a list of donors and donations.&#13;
Mission Log Church deserves its own category due to its history and breadth of&#13;
information. Initially, this log building, built by missionary Peter Dougherty, was located&#13;
in Elk Rapids. The building was disassembled and rebuilt as a church in Old Mission, in&#13;
the early 1840’s. Between 1858 and 1916 the building was utilized as a Methodist&#13;
Episcopal parish. At some point this original building was razed, and the replica church&#13;
was rebuilt in 1939. A centennial celebration was held on June 30, 1939 to dedicate the&#13;
replica and celebrate the 100th birthday of Old Mission.&#13;
Mission Point Lighthouse is a four-volume collection of compiled photocopied archival&#13;
materials in January 2010. Compiled by the Old Mission Peninsula Historical Society,&#13;
these volumes are comprised of photocopies of letters, documents, reports, logbooks,&#13;
drawing and photographs, documenting the history of the Mission Point Lighthouse. The&#13;
collection was developed from the holdings of several private comprehensive records of&#13;
the Lighthouse that are accessible to researchers. The collection is primarily organized&#13;
chronologically except for materials that appear in the fourth volume. The collection was&#13;
donated by the Society to the Library to promote use of the collection by community&#13;
members.&#13;
Old Mission Peninsula Historical Society (OMPHS) includes copies of their&#13;
newsletters, early bylaws, and documentation on tentative Historical Policy and&#13;
attempts to create a Historic District in the Village of Old Mission.&#13;
Periodicals is a scattered collection of periodicals that mention some aspect of Old&#13;
Mission Peninsula life and Grand Traverse County. Most of these have been collected&#13;
by the Peninsula Community Library staff and are locally published.&#13;
The Porter House was built in 1869 by George and Betsy Hedden and was originally&#13;
known as Hedden Hall. This 31-room hotel was also home to the Old Mission Post&#13;
Office from 1869-1889. Sold to Alfred and Ella Porter in 1902, it became known as The&#13;
Porter House. The hotel welcomed passengers that arrived at the docks at Old Mission&#13;
Harbor. Purported guests include Babe Ruth and Joe Louis, circa 1936. The Porters&#13;
also ran the Old Mission Citizens Telephone Company at this location from 1906-1926.&#13;
The hotel changed hands in 1945 (sold to Norman and Doris Nevinger) and it became&#13;
known as The Old Mission Inn. In 1998 another set of owners, Bruce and Angie Jensen,&#13;
purchased the Inn.&#13;
Reports include primarily published reports on various topics, including information&#13;
about artifacts from shipwrecks near Old Mission.&#13;
&#13;
Container No. Description&#13;
American Legion Post 399 [series]:&#13;
&#13;
Digital “History of the Old Mission American Legion Hall Post 399” Talk&#13;
https://localhistory.tadl.org/items/show/27630&#13;
Box 1 “History of the Old Mission American Legion Hall Post 399” Talk - copy of&#13;
&#13;
Powerpoint presentation and source materials&#13;
&#13;
Box 1 Rudolph, W. W. (2023, November 12). Old Mission History: Robert C.&#13;
Tompkins, killed in USS Mount Hood explosion, honored at Old&#13;
Mission Legion Hall - Old Mission Gazette. Old Mission Gazette.&#13;
&#13;
https://www.oldmission.net/2023/11/robert-c-tompkins-uss-mount-&#13;
hood/&#13;
&#13;
Church Histories [series]:&#13;
&#13;
Box 1 Ogdensburg United Methodist Church (Note: Photographs ca. 1955;&#13;
Cemetery Association records 20 May 1926-18 June 1928)&#13;
Box 1 “St. Joseph’s Catholic Church History, 1850-1996”, by Mary R. Lyon.&#13;
Box 1 “The Old Mission Cook Book, compiled by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the&#13;
Congregational Church,” 1922. Contains one original cookbook&#13;
and one reprint.&#13;
Box 1 “George Lamb Roberts, 1821-1905” by James G. Roberts, January 20,&#13;
1909. An accounting of Mr. Robert’s life. He was responsible for&#13;
the building of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Mapleton, as well&#13;
&#13;
as Secretary of the Old Mission Farmer’s Club.&#13;
Box 1 Old Mission Congregational Church (includes copies of 1879&#13;
Constitution, 1885 Election of Trustees, 1890 mortgage, 1891&#13;
deed and abstract of title, deed, 1891 Trustees document, 1896&#13;
appointment of Calvin Hulbert as minister).&#13;
&#13;
Digital “The Church Chronicles” Talk (Ogdensburg United Methodist Church/St.&#13;
Joseph Catholic Church/Unitarian Universalist of Grand Traverse&#13;
County/Swedish Church/Old Mission Congregational Church)&#13;
https://localhistory.tadl.org/items/show/27624&#13;
&#13;
Box 5 “The Church Chronicles” Talk (Ogdensburg United Methodist Church/St.&#13;
Joseph Catholic Church/Unitarian Universalist of Grand Traverse&#13;
County/Swedish Church/Old Mission Congregational Church) -&#13;
copy of Powerpoint presentation&#13;
&#13;
Box 5 Photographs of the Swedish Church, which was located off of Island View&#13;
Road near Peninsula Drive. The 8 1⁄2 x 11 photos are from the&#13;
collection of Elsie Edmondson.&#13;
Dougherty Historic Home Site [series]:&#13;
Box 1 Dougherty Historic Home Site: The Mission House, by the Peter&#13;
Dougherty Society, Printed slide presentation concerning the&#13;
history of the Mission House, the Society’s restoration efforts, and&#13;
donor information to restore the House, 2015&#13;
&#13;
Box 1 Jaroh, Kristina, et.al. An Archaeological Survey of the Structure known as&#13;
the Peter Dougherty Pier. Northwestern Michigan Archaeological&#13;
Society, Nautical Archaeology Society, March 2015. (restricted use,&#13;
not to be photocopied)&#13;
&#13;
Box 1 Memories of the Dougherty-Rushmore Icehouse by&#13;
Nancy Rushmore, born September 3, 1927 (typed copy of original&#13;
letter)&#13;
Box 1 Peter Dougherty Society, by Bill Cole. An account of the formation of the&#13;
non-profit 501(c) (3), its goals, mission and administration (6/2010)&#13;
Box 1 Background of the Dougherty Mission House, by Bill Cole, February&#13;
2019. Printed account of the significance of the house because of&#13;
its role in the original settlement of the Grand Traverse region and&#13;
its recorded history.&#13;
&#13;
Box 1 Interpretation and Artifact Guide, Dougherty/Rushmore House, Old&#13;
Mission, Michigan by Quinn Evans, Architects. A report&#13;
presenting an approach to furnish and interpret the individuals&#13;
rooms of the restored Dougherty/Rushmore House, January 2010.&#13;
&#13;
Box 1 Dougherty/Rushmore, by Nancy Warne. A printed copy of a talk that&#13;
Nancy gave to the Questor organization, whose mission is to&#13;
educate by research and study of antiques and to donate funds to&#13;
the preservation and restoration of memorials, historic buildings&#13;
and landmarks, October 2018. (Items that are crossed out in this&#13;
document were not included in her talk due to time limitations).&#13;
Includes excerpts from Peter Dougherty’s diary, and information&#13;
about the various owners of the house.&#13;
Box 1 History of the Dougherty House, by Bill Cole. A brief account, with high&#13;
level dates, November 2019.&#13;
Box 1 Reconstruction of Dougherty House Timeline, 2006 – 2018, by Bill Cole.&#13;
An overview, by year, of the restoration work completed by the&#13;
Peter Dougherty Society, July 2020&#13;
Box 1 Minutes of the Old Mission and New Mission (Grove Hill) Church,&#13;
1843-1871 (includes names of natives who were baptized and their&#13;
Christian names)&#13;
Published Works [subseries]:&#13;
&#13;
Box 1 The Michigan Historical Review, Volume 43, No. 1, by Central Michigan&#13;
University, 2017. Contents include Mary Ann Heidemann, and Ted&#13;
J. Ligibel. “Preserving and Interpreting a Shared Mission: Peter&#13;
Dougherty, Chief Ahgosa, and Northern Michigan's Old Mission.”&#13;
pp. 29–56.&#13;
&#13;
Hessler Log Cabin [series]:&#13;
&#13;
Box 4 Sequential photographs of the cabin’s move and restoration and&#13;
miscellaneous newspaper articles&#13;
https://localhistory.tadl.org/collections/show/44&#13;
&#13;
Volume 6 Miscellaneous documents, minutes, drawings associated with saving the&#13;
cabin&#13;
&#13;
Digital “Hessler Log Cabin” Talk (two videos showcasing the relocation and&#13;
dedication of the Hessler Log Cabin. Includes photos of documents&#13;
identifying a list of contributors and volunteers who contributed to&#13;
the restoration and relocation of the cabin)&#13;
https://localhistory.tadl.org/items/show/30395&#13;
&#13;
Mission Log Church [series]:&#13;
Box 6 Original drawings and descriptive materials from the Log Church display&#13;
that was undertaken as a Community Improvement Program by the&#13;
Old Mission Women's Club, 1973/1974 and removed in 2023.&#13;
Artwork by Victor and Patty Hogg (obituary of Patricia Hogg&#13;
included in this box) and Dirk Gringhuis. The display was&#13;
organized under the headings: Agriculture (6 dwgs), Early Settlers&#13;
(4 dwgs), Indians (5 dwgs), and Schools (4 dwgs). A jump drive&#13;
containing photos of the drawings is also included.&#13;
&#13;
Box 6 Photos of “Village Life” in Old Mission (these were part of the 1973/1974&#13;
Volume 8 display). Includes photos of Old Mission school children from 1910,&#13;
Ferry boats, and methods of hauling fruit and snow plowing.&#13;
Drawer 2, Oversize drawings from the 1973/1974 display (2 of the 4 Early Settlers&#13;
Oversize drawings)&#13;
Folder 2&#13;
Box 5 Background information utilized in the making of the 1973/1974 display&#13;
includes:&#13;
- a report binder containing a detailed plan of the display’s&#13;
organization and identification of the sponsor, architect, and artists&#13;
(detailed plan attributed to Helen McCall), and&#13;
- a loose leaf folder of materials utilized in the creation of the&#13;
descriptive materials (last owned by Amy Lyman)&#13;
&#13;
Box 5 Quit Claim Deed (copy) between Bertha Gilmore and Peninsula Township&#13;
deeding the property that the replica church resides to the&#13;
Township&#13;
&#13;
Box 5 “A Brief History of the Old Mission Methodist Episcopal Church” - article by&#13;
Chris Rieser. Also copies of 1859 and 1908 plat maps showing&#13;
locations of the church.&#13;
&#13;
Published Works [subseries]:&#13;
Box 5 “Glimpses at Old Mission’s Centennial Celebration”. Traverse&#13;
&#13;
City Record-Eagle, 1 July, 1939. (Copy)&#13;
“History Turns Back for Early Settlers”. Unknown. (Copy).&#13;
“Program Ready for Centennial at Old Mission”. Unknown. (Copy)&#13;
“Mission Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary”. The Cherryland&#13;
Review: The News of Antrim, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and&#13;
Leelanau Counties, 29 June, 1939. (Copy)&#13;
“Observe Old Mission Centennial Tomorrow: Rededicate Mission Chapel&#13;
on the Site Where Rev. Peter Daugherty Landed 100 Years Ago”.&#13;
Unknown. 29 June, 1939 (Copy)&#13;
&#13;
Drawer 2, “Mission Celebrates its 100th Anniversary: Centennial Celebration&#13;
Oversize to be Gala Event for Old Settlers”. The Cherryland&#13;
Folder 2 Review: The News of Antrim, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and&#13;
&#13;
Leelanau Counties, 29 June, 1939. (Original)&#13;
Mission Point Lighthouse [series]:&#13;
&#13;
Volume 1 1860-1900&#13;
Volume 2 1900-1930&#13;
Volume 3 1930-1940&#13;
Volume 4 Miscellaneous documents, logbooks, drawings and photographs&#13;
Drawer 2, Oversized photograph&#13;
Oversize&#13;
Folder 1&#13;
Box 1 Miscellaneous loose documents (“Light House Property Subscriptions,”&#13;
the original list of persons who helped to purchase the lighthouse in&#13;
1948; a copy of Mission Point Lighthouse by Laura Johnson and&#13;
Stefanie Staley; a copy of Michigan Lighthouses by John Penrod,&#13;
1993; a copy of An Archaeological Study of the Rise,&#13;
Demise and Resurrection of Mission Point Lighthouse by Nancy&#13;
Jaroh, 2015 (restricted use, not to be photocopied); Compact Disc&#13;
of research conducted on the Lighthouse by Candice Clifford at&#13;
the National Archives, Washington, D.C.)&#13;
&#13;
Box 3 “Record of Passing Vessels”, original logbook kept by Jerome Pratt, the&#13;
first lighthouse keeper of Mission Point Lighthouse, 1870-1876.&#13;
Donated to PCL by the Old Mission Peninsula Historical Society on&#13;
October 11, 2018. Originally donated to OMPHS by the Edward R.&#13;
Bagley Trust in memory of Ted and Lucille Bagley.&#13;
&#13;
Box 3 Binder that accompanies the “Record of Passing Vessels”. Its contents&#13;
include an appraisal of the log book by Don Butkovich Antiques &amp;&#13;
Appraisals, PCL Archival Loan Agreement, Deed of Gift,&#13;
Newspaper clippings and other documents from the Bagley Estate.&#13;
&#13;
Old Mission Peninsula Historical Society (OMPHS) [series]:&#13;
Box 1 Echoes: Newsletter of the Old Mission Peninsula Historical Society,&#13;
(September 2004; April, 2005, October 2005; March 2006; April&#13;
2007; November 2007; April 2008; November 2008;April 2009;&#13;
November 2010; April 2011; Autumn 2012; Spring 2013; Fall 2013;&#13;
Year End 2014; Sept. 2016 Spec Edition)&#13;
&#13;
Box 1 Miscellaneous loose documents (early bylaws, tentative Historical Policy,&#13;
proposal for a Historic District in the Village of Old Mission. Log&#13;
Cabin Day “thank you” card, listing of OMPHS Presidents 1992 to&#13;
2021)&#13;
&#13;
Volume 7 Meeting Minutes and Financial Reports (June 2012 - June 2022)&#13;
&#13;
Periodicals [series]:&#13;
&#13;
Box 1 Newspaper clippings, undated&#13;
&#13;
Porter House [series]:&#13;
&#13;
Box 2 Register of Hotel Guests, 1902 to 1907 (original)&#13;
Drawer 2, Register of Hotel Guests, 1908 to 1944 (Note: Photocopy of the original,&#13;
Volume 5 which is on site at Old Mission Inn)&#13;
Box 2 Jensen, Tyler Scott. The History of the Old Mission Inn. May 2002.&#13;
Box 2 Photograph of the Porter House (date unknown)&#13;
Reports [series]:&#13;
Box 1 Jaroh, Nancy. Display Artifacts related to the Shipwrecks of A.J. Rogers&#13;
and Metropolis: Scale Photos, Identification and Comparison&#13;
Photos, donated by Donald and Connie Sargent. Northwestern&#13;
Michigan Archaeological Society, Nautical Archaeology Society,&#13;
December 2015. (restricted use, not to be photocopied)</text>
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