Wenona Beach

Heritage \ Places

Places
"Parks, cemeteries, recreational, plats, etc."

Everyone can all recall a favorite place that disappeared from the present or has changed dramatically over time. It may be a park, ballfield, playground, beach or countless other destinations that are no longer a part of our geography.

Journal of Places: Listing and brief histories.

CEMETERIES | Land Plats | Parks | Other

Potters Field (cemetery) - Bay City's first burial grounds on east side of river.

Other locations:
Heritage/Directories/ {Bay County Cemetery Listing}
Heritage/Groups/Military/Civil War/ {G.A.R. Burials (pdf)}
Heritage/Writings/ {Abandoned St. Joseph Cemetery} - (1951)
Maps Library/ {Cemetery Maps}
Pictorials/ {Cemeteries}

Cemeteries | LAND PLATS | Parks | Other

Birney, James G. - {MI-1710-034} {MI-1710-035} {MI-1710-091}

Other locations:
Maps Library/ {Bangor Twsp. Plats} - (1916) Includes index to names.
Maps Library/ {Bay City Downtown Plats} - (1916) Shows lot nos. & parks.
Maps Library/ {Hampton Twsp. Plats} - (1916) Includes index to names.
Maps Library/ {Indian Villages} - Locations of villages and burial grounds.
Maps Library/ {Pioneer Plat Index} - Listing of early plats & link to patent document.

Search for land patents at the [Bureau of Land Management].

Cemeteries | Land Plats | PARKS | Other

Wenona Beach - A popular Bangor Township amusement park on the bay.

Other locations:
Maps Library/ {Park City} - (1884) Article describing Bay City's parks at that time.

Cemeteries | Land Plats | Parks | OTHER

Saginaw Bay Fishing - Article by Dan Manyen on local fishing history.

Other locations:
Heritage/Writings/ {Michigan Lumber Regions} (1868) - Includes early lumbering in Saginaw Valley.
Heritage/Writings/ {Saginaw Valley Lumbering} (1884) - Early lumbering, by Albert Miller.
Maps Library/ {West Bay City Bus. District} - Streets, buildings & brief histories.