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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...
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. His words and style bring to life a most...
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...
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]
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 ...
The blaze, also called the Great Thumb Fire, the Great Forest Fire of 1881 and the Huron Fire, killed 282 people in Sanilac, Lapeer, Tuscola and Huron counties. The damage estimate was $2,347,000 [ 2 ] in 1881, equivalent to $74,100,455 when adjusted for inflation.
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 destroyed major parts of Tuscola, Huron, Sanilac, and St. Clair counties.
