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Unk, unk and Doc Tillapaugh in Interlochen.
A Photograph album of pictures taken by Hanley Wilhelm and his friends taken before WWI of their trips around the area.

Family outside the original Hofbrau bar and restaurant in Interlochen.
Interlochen was platted in 1890 where the M&NE and C&WM railroads crossed. It quickly became a lumber town and later after the lumber was gone, served the resorts, cottages,…

Jim Spivey. He was a lumberjack, rented fishing boats, cottage caretaker, ran the launch across Duck Lake to the resort dance hall, operated the tug "Betsie" for the Wylie Cooperage and did everything necessary to support his widowed mother. A…

M&NE railroad snowplow near Interlochen.
Interlochen was platted in 1890 where the M&NE and C&WM railroads crossed. It quickly became a lumber town and later after the lumber was gone, served the resorts, cottages, State Park and camps that grew up…

Charlie Wilson.

Camp Interlochen, girl campers in uniforms on the beach, Green Lake. Christina Pennington, Director, is on the left end close to the camera.

The Tuller farm at the corner of Euclid Ave. and Diamond Park Rd. The Tullers sold eggs and dairy goods to the early residents of Diamond Park.

Willis Pennington with his children, Willis Jr. (Bill) and Madge in front of the Hotel Pennington on Green Lake.
Interlochen was platted in 1890 where the M&NE and C&WM railroads crossed. It quickly became a lumber town and later after the lumber…

Camp Interlochen campers in canoes.


Camp Interlochen, 1919-1943, was an early private girls camp on Green Lake run by Parker and Christina Pennington.

Christina Paton Pennington was the co-director of Camp Interlochen for girls which ran from 1919-1943 on Green Lake. c.1942
The Pennington family arrived in Long Lake in the late 1870's. Josiah was a Quaker minister there and helped start the T.C.…