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Apr 16, 2022 · The first Globe Hotel was built on River Street and burned in 1871. According to historic accounts, that blaze consumed not only the hotel, but three entire business blocks.
Mar 11, 2014 · ALPENA — Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan’s planetarium held a standing room-only crowd to see a presentation on Alpena’s railroad history and the hobby of riding the rails in motorcars.
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By mid 1990 the County of Alpena began to make improvements to the airport’s passenger terminal with the help of the Michigan Bureau of Aeronautics grant programs. Passenger traffic gradually rose during the mid 1990’s as Great Lakes Airlines provided service to Chicago.
Alpena County Regional Airport (IATA: APN, ICAO: KAPN, FAA LID: APN) is a county-owned, public-use, joint civil-military airport in Alpena County, Michigan, United States. The airport is located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) west of the central business district of Alpena, off of M-32.
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Lumber barons (logging company and landowners) were among the first to provide the City of Alpena with basic infrastructure and services such as roads and stores. Logging operations were at a peak from 1836 through 1921, and the thriving lumber trade birthed many small towns along the coast such as Bell.
Alpena, county seat of Alpena County, is located on the shores of Thunder Bay, an inlet of Lake Huron in northeast Michigan. Large limestone quarries near Alpena led to the development of substantial a cement-manufacturing industry. The first settlement was a trading post, established in 1835.
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary protects hundreds of historic shipwrecks resting on Lake Huron’s floor. Divers, snorkelers, kayakers, history buffs, and everyone in between venture to Alpena to learn the story these wrecks share.
