Month: March 2016

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Michigan – [pictures & films] was Paul Bunyan a real character who was murdered in Bay City?

According to Author/Historian D.Laurence Rogers, Paul Bunyan may have been based on a real person in Michigan. The lumber industry in Michigan was once a booming business. The white pine was like “green gold” and many people became millionaires.  This also attracted  a rowdy, rough element which could have included a character like Paul Bunyan who […]

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Mount Pleasant Hall, Freneau, New Jersey -President James Madison wooed in vain the sister of Philip Freneau, the poet of the Revolution

*Note: Some of the language below may be a little antiquated because its excerpts and transcriptions from a the book  -Transcription from Historic Houses of New Jersey By Weymer Jay Mills .J. B. Lippincott Company – written in  1902 = The original words provide a unique glimpse of the people and early times in New Jersey Guarded […]