Dublin Core
Subject
Bridges
Overviews
Flooring
Wood products
Description
Overview taken from the Courthouse tower looking south at the area around the Boardman River at 8th Street. Boardman Lake and the Fulghum Manufacturing factory is in the background. On the lower left side, the small neighborhood that used to sit on the east bank of the Boardman River,just north of Eight Street. This is the site of today's Governmental Center. The image was take in the late 1800s from County Court House. It lokks south over the Boardman lake and the Fulghum Manufacturing Co.
Traverse City's first white settler's home is believed to have sat near what is today the intersection of Boardman Avenue and Eights Street. That spot can be seen on the left side of the image nearthe right side of the trees.
Out Trivia Tuesday question asks "Do you know where the first settler's home was built within the current city limits of Traverse City?" The site of that home is visible in this photograph (the answer is at the end of this post). This question refers to the white settlers, as native americans inhabited this area hundreds of years before white settlesment.
Our Tuesday photo shows, on the image's lower-left side, the small neighborhood that used to sit on the east bank of the Baordman River, just north of Eighth Street. This is the site of today's Governmental Center. The image was taken in the late 1800s from the County Court House. It looks south over the Boardman River, Eighth Street, Boardman Lake and the Fulgham Maufacturing Co.
Traverse City's first white settler's home is believed to have sat near what is today the intersection of Boardman Avenue and Eighth Street. That spot can be seen on the left side of this image near the right side of the trees.
Traverse City's first white settler's home is believed to have sat near what is today the intersection of Boardman Avenue and Eights Street. That spot can be seen on the left side of the image nearthe right side of the trees.
Out Trivia Tuesday question asks "Do you know where the first settler's home was built within the current city limits of Traverse City?" The site of that home is visible in this photograph (the answer is at the end of this post). This question refers to the white settlers, as native americans inhabited this area hundreds of years before white settlesment.
Our Tuesday photo shows, on the image's lower-left side, the small neighborhood that used to sit on the east bank of the Baordman River, just north of Eighth Street. This is the site of today's Governmental Center. The image was taken in the late 1800s from the County Court House. It looks south over the Boardman River, Eighth Street, Boardman Lake and the Fulgham Maufacturing Co.
Traverse City's first white settler's home is believed to have sat near what is today the intersection of Boardman Avenue and Eighth Street. That spot can be seen on the left side of this image near the right side of the trees.
Source
Photo Collection
Date
1900
Type
Clipping, newspaper
Identifier
718.000000.422
4206096C-2844-4906-A0C0-472332731440