Exploring American History. Next, a look at recent visit to Traverse City, michigan. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Until 1863, 90 5 of the settlement, was about the fur , missionaries to the indians, logging industry, et cetera. After 1863, the United States government decided to give away all of their land. After that, any citizen or future citizen of the u. S. Could have 160 acres of land as long as they would live on it and improve it for five years. That created a monumental change to this area and all of michigan and the country. A fair percentage of them, 30 or 40 did come over land. Others, my ancestors from pennsylvania, came west of buffalo from the pittsburgh area. From buffalo, they went to northport, and then they unloaded all of the above, the wagons, the livestock, the horses, everything, and traveled overland 70 miles south to northport. The land at the mouth of the river was settled by an individual named boardman in 1847. In 1851, he sold out to four men who had a big business in chicago. That was perry hannah and tracy leigh. They moved here and lived here the rest of their life. Perry hannah created virtually everything that was Traverse City. He built the first store, he operated a large sawmill with the number of employees and serious income. He brought in supplies, he would send lumber from chicago to his sawmill and bring back food for everybody. When we go back to boardman and so on, they picked the mouth of the river, which has the potential for development, but it was also all pine. They could start manufacturing lumber immediately. You could almost say it is 50 50 50 hardwood, 50 red pine, white pine, etc. And it was all considered to be good farmland. So commercial buyers bought the pine timber land, and the pine timberland was manufactured. Perry hannah had two or three sawmills here and almost all the lumber went to chicago. It was not even sold locally, it went to chicago and was distributed to 10 other states out of chicago. Hannah, in the 1850s, initially shipped his lumber on schooners. We can take a grasp in the dark and say every vessel would have built 1020 buildings. It is a huge amount. In 1857, 1858, he bought a secondhand steamboat and started carrying his lumber to chicago twice a week on the steamboat. It left Traverse City every wednesday afternoon and left chicago every sunday afternoon, and people could rely on planning transportation that way. This is 15 years before the railroad arrived. He did that, in 1872, even with the arrival of the railroad, he built a large, very well outfitted steamboat to carry both lumber or grain and passengers, and he operated that to chicago on a regular schedule. So he was bringing people here as fast as he could to come to his store, if nothing else. He also had small steamers that circled the bay to bring homesteaders anywhere within reach to historic Traverse City. So hannah bought in here in 1850, 1851, until 1886. He operated two sawmill here, and by 1886, he cuts all the timber he wanted to. So he started selling his timber and he put his sawmills up for sale, etc. The lumber industry was declining. His lumber was running out rapidly, and he brought passengers here in the summer and took them to the north of lake michigan, and everybody learned that recreational opportunities and the cool weather compared to chicago that Northern Michigan had. It all started bringing tourism here, and it has continued to grow ever since, continuously in the 150 years we are talking about. Lets say that perry hannah had an awful lot of foresight, and he did this in his own economic interest, but i the same time he created industries that are Traverse City today, the commercial segment and tourism segment are based on him, and there are other factors that he did transportation, although it is not as big today because of automobiles as it was 100 years ago, but nevertheless all these facilities were in place to make Traverse City grow. Our cities tour staff recently traveled to Traverse City, michigan, to learn about its rich history. To watch more video from Traverse City and other stops on our tour, visit cspan. Org cities tour. Americanatching history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. I was on an airstrip in the guyana, havingof just concluded a congressional delegation tour with leo ryan. We were ambushed on that airstrip. We were shot. Congressman ryan was shot a five times and died. They were members of the press that died. 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