Name/Title
Michigan's Favorite Summer Resort 1890sEntry/Object ID
2021.41.32Description
Photocopy of a page from a circa very early tourist guide. The map includes a road to the light house and the distance by steamship to Chicago. The towns of Saugatuck and Douglas are quickly rendered grids with any details. The tracks of the D.L.S. S&H Electric Railroad and the S.H.D. S.&H. Electric Railroad are indicated although the south railroad never operated. Fruit farms, Crissy Landing, the Douglas dock, Bandle Resort, Riverside Hotel, Mount Baldhead, Forward Movement Park (opened 1897), McVea Resort, Mrs. Trumbull Resort, Bryan Beach, Shore Road, Douglas park, Captain Reid Resort are also indicated.Context
The map strongly resembles the map from the "Beauties of Saugatuck and Douglas" guide map and is an example of early tourism marketing.Collection
1880 Tourism steamship era -1930, Transporation: Rail - other than Interurban, 1899 Interurban electric train -1926, 1897 Forward Movement Park, Gray and Presbyterian Camps -2014, 1870 Fruit growing, farming, agricultureCataloged By
Winthers, SallyAcquisition
Accession
2021.41Source or Donor
Schmiechen, James A.Acquisition Method
DonationRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Interurban Railroad 1899-1927, 186 S. Maple/Crissy/Hibberdine place, 116 Riverside/Riverside Rest/Bandle Farm/Bandle's Addition 1890-2024, Ox-Bow Inn/Riverside Hotel/Shriver family home, Presbyterian Camp/Camp Gray/Forward Movement Park 1899-2014, McVea Homestead, Douglas Park and Bryan Beach, Douglas Beach, Stairs and Park, Reid, Robert Sr. 1827-1906, Turnbull, Ellen (Heath) 1854-1936Create Date
August 7, 2025Update Date
August 7, 2025
