Michigan’s Great Thumb Fires of 1871 and 1881

It is unimaginable to picture whole counties burning, but that was the case in 1871, and then remarkably, ten years later again in 1881. Michigan’s entire Thumb region suffered from two disastrous fires mostly due

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