Identifier: detroitpleasurer00detr (find matches)
Title: Detroit and the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan. Compliments of passenger department
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad Company
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: (Detroit, J. F. Eby & co., printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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-awake and enterprising of Northern Michigan towns. In later jears it has become moresedate, however, dependingmore on the agricultural and less on the lumbering resourcesof the country for its support. The Northern hotel, located here, is first-class in everyparticular. Big Rapids is also the present terminus of the Stanton Branch of theD., L. & N. Reed City is 13 miles north from Big Rapids. The Flint & Pere Marquette roadcrosses the Grand Rapids and Indiana R. R. at this point. Cadillac, the next town of importance, is beautifully located on the shores of one ofthe finest inland lakes of the State. The business portion of the town is near the lakeshore, but the residences are mainly farther back on the higher grounds. There areseveral large saw-mills located here There are good hotels, fine churches, and a goodschool. The people are enterprising, the surrounding country is excellent, and theprospects for the future development of the town are good. Cadillac claims to be one
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RESORTS OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN. 43 of the Summer Resorts of Northern Michigan, and certainly one might go a good dealfarther and fare a good deal worse. At Walton, a few miles north from Cadillac, we may take the Traverse City branchto Traverse City, or continue on the main line to Petoskey. TRAVERSE CITY.Traverse City is located at the head of the west arm of Grand Traverse Bay, and isthe largest town on the Bay, having a population of about 2,000 souls. It is one of theoldest towns in this section of the State, having almost entirely lost the backwoodsappearance that is characteristic of new towns generally. The location of TraverseCity is one of rare beauty and healthfulness. To the North, as far as the eye can reach,is^Grand Traverse Bay. The shores of this Bay are heavily fringed with luxuriantevergreens which are reflected in the clear, bright waters with a witchery that is charm-ing to behold. The water of the Bay is remarkably pure and cold. A piece of crockeryor any white objec

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