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19 Μαρ 2020 · The Great Fires of 1871 - The summer of 1871 was dreadfully hot and dry in the #Michigan Thumb. Farmers watched their crops wither in the dry heat. In the fall, relief from the drought was...
The fires of September 4th through the 6th 1881, commonly known as the Thumb Fire, took hundreds of lives and burned well over one million acres. The fire d...
3 Ιουν 2014 · WALLS OF FLAME: THE MICHIGAN FOREST FIRES OF 1881 - PART ONE. I was completely fascinated by this account written in 1968 by Gerard Schultz.
Three separate fires occurred in Michigan on October 8, 1871: the Manistee Fire, the Port Huron Fire, the Holland Fire. Together, they are known as the Great Michigan Fire. Because the fires engulfed huge swathes of Michigan wilderness that were home to an unknown number of loggers and settlers, the true death toll is nearly impossible to ...
1881 fire. The population was denser on Sept. 5, 1881, when a firestorm traveled across Sanilac County in four hours, leaving 150 people dead and hundreds injured.
8 Ιαν 2007 · ANN ARBOR—Flames are ravaging the forests and prairies of the West, but during the autumn of 1871, fire swept across part of eastern Michigan laying claim to life, property and natural resources, primarily in Sanilac, Huron and Tuscola counties.
The Great Michigan Fire was a series of simultaneous forest fires in the state of Michigan in the United States in 1871. [1] They were possibly caused (or at least reinforced) by the same winds that fanned the Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire and the Port Huron Fire; some believe lightning or even meteor showers may have started the fires. [2]
