Note
Status: OK
Status By: Meghann Stevens
Status Date: 2018-09-24Note
Lorenz Box #3: Singapore Inventory created by Olivia Foster, summer 2022
• Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal Survey, 1839, Detroit Public Library
• September 1, 1992, letter to “Ann” identifying where the Singapore buildings now exist in Saugatuck, from an unidentified author
o Ann Ransford?
o Charles J. Lorenz?
• Write up/chapter about O.R. Johnson and Company by Charles Lorenz in 1992
o From his book?
• Spring 1837 letter to William J. Hinkle from Charles Hinkle of Singapore from the Waldo Library at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Chapter on Francis Browne Stockbridge
• Letter to Mr. Herald C. Weeks from Jessie and Julia Morrison, May 20, 1866, from the Waldo Library at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Chapter on Otis Russell Johnson
• Chapter on Oshea Wilder
• Chapter on Singapore
• Chapter on James Gordon Carter and Artemus Carter
• Chapter on the Milwaukee
• Title page/flyer of “The Buried City of Singapore” by Charles J. Lorenz, Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, dated October 13, 1993
• Ann Ransford letter to her MSU classmates and families detailing directions and the itinerary for their trip to Saugatuck
• Chapter on the Panic of 1937
• Singapore County atlas by D. J. Lake, dated 1873/1864?
• “Wildcat is over and has nearly ruined” by Charles J. Lorenz, dated 1989, from “Saugatuck Notes and Quotes from 150 Years Ago”
• H. H. Hutchins’ mother’s letters about early life in Singapore
• “Beneath the shifting sands lies rough-hewn Singapore: Nature has buried a Lake Michigan lumbering town, but its wild old tales live on” by Jeanne C. van Wieren, Detroit Free Press, May 18, 1980
• “One More Chapter About Singapore: Comments About the Town by Early Woman Settler --- More Privations than Pleasures --- Disputed Points Made Clear --- First Village in County Now a Dreary Waste of Sand.” Dated February 19, 1932
• "The Early History of Saugatuck and Singapore, Michigan 1830-1840” by Charles J. Lorenz
o “for the purpose of calling this a limited, first edition, I certify that only 250 copies were printed” May 30, 1980
• “Singapore Disappeared: What was once a thriving lumbering town on the shore of Lake Michigan is now buried under tons on shifting sand” by Kenneth Allen. September 1947, Motor News
• Genealogy of the Descendants of Steven Lucas: For Seven Generations (1794-1964)
o See “One More Chapter About Singapore” by H. H. Hutchins
o Lucas at Singapore boarding house in 1848
• Singing Sands: The Story of Saugatuck, Michigan by Lorene M. Pacey
o The Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque
• Singapore and Beyond: F. B. Stockbridge
o Unknown author and undated
• Singapore 5 dollar bill in envelope
• “Buried Assets” by P. H. (Jim) Frans, March-April 1973
• “A Tale of Two Days” Commercial Record, 1901
• Singapore: Michigan’s Imaginary Pompeii” by Charles R. Starring
• “ “ printed in The Detroit News, October 26, 1930
• Letter to Ruth Bronson from George S. May, Historic State Specialist on May 21, 1958
o Singapore historical marker
• Write up on the log marker (see artifact, C & X) from Waldo Library, Western Michigan University
• “Singapore Day” flyer, no date
o Dedication of official historic site marker from Michigan Historical Commission at Village Hall