10 Michigan Towns Lumber Barons Built (And What’s Left Today)

🗺️ Plan your Michigan trip with our 4 travel guides (E-Book): road trips, old diners, lighthouses & places to stay 👉 https://michigan-guide-box.netlify.app/?src=yt-description In 1919, a Michigan lumber baron died and locked his fortune away. His heirs waited 92 years for it. In 2011, about 100 million dollars was finally divided among twelve of his descendants. For about thirty years in the late 1800s, Michigan led the nation in lumber. The men who owned the mills built mansions, opera houses, libraries and entire downtowns. Then the white pine ran out. In this video, we visit 10 Michigan towns that lumber barons built, ranked from the largest city to the smallest, and what is still standing today: from Saginaw, Muskegon and Bay City to Traverse City, Cadillac, Alpena, Menominee, Cheboygan, Grayling and Seney, the boomtown Hemingway wrote about. In this video: The 92-year will #10 Saginaw #9 Muskegon #8 Bay City #7 Traverse City #6 Cadillac #5 Alpena #4 Menominee #3 Cheboygan #2 Grayling #1 Seney What the barons left behind Many of the museums and historic homes in this video keep seasonal hours, so check before you go. Which lumber baron's story surprised you most? Tell us in the comments. Subscribe to Michigan Hometowns for more stories from Michigan's small towns. #Michigan #MichiganHistory #LumberBarons Music: "Disquiet" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/