Back to the wilderness of Pere Marquette Township in the 1600s
To the arrival of Pere Jacques Marquette, controversy regarding his death site and commemorative events
To the arrival of the early settlers, including these families:
The early lumber mills and towns, including Buttersville, Taylorsville, Seatonville and Finn Town
The "Miserable and Ornery" railroad, the narrow gauge running from Buttersville to Walkerville
The changing of the channel from its original location across the Buttersville Peninsula
Early transportation, by horse, rail, boat, plane, and automobile
Schools, including Phillips, Sutton, Buttersville, Marchido, Jones, Wing, and Pleasant View
Farm families, including Hutchisons, Leuwers, Rasmussens, Draminskis, Voss, Petersons, Hesslunds, and Bradshaws.
Business and industry, including early logging, Dow Chemical Company, Harbison-Walker, the Star-lite Drive In, the Basket Factory, Motyka Metal Products, Frontier Market, Ayers Plumbing and Heating, WKLA, Electric Tamper (now Harsco), Airport Restaurant, and the Detroit Edison/Consumers Energy Pumped Storage Project
The story of Epworth beginning in 1894
The establishment of a local government by the first sixteen voters and bits and pieces about history of Township parks, Phillips Cemetery, properties annexed by the City of Ludington, water and sewer expansion, development of industrial parks, and a list of Township officials back to 1856.