Spiegel Girls  from Essexville circa 1918

Grandma and Great Aunts

Sugar Beet Farming Family 

4 of  11 children 6 girls 4 boys

 

Essexville Michigan SUGAR BEETS

My family from Essexville Michigan 

were Sugar Beet Farmers

Spiegel Family was sugar beet farmers

Sugar beets became a cash crop for the area.  With the lumbering age at it close and cleared land what to do but plant Sugar Beets.

above pictures from: http://www.michigansugar.com/about/history.php

 

above pictures from:  http://www.sweetbeet.com

Since I grew up in Michigan we had Beet sugar.  Then when I moved back east to Boston, I could not find beet sugar all they had was cane sugar. 

Explore Michigan see what enchatment it holds for you.

 

Tahquamenon Falls *

 

Mitten home* 

 

Manitou Islands for vacation* 

 

Iron Furnace in Forestville, from long ago*

 

Sugar Beet factory in Essexville*

 

Birch Lodge in Trout Lake*

 

INDIAN LAKE TRAIN BRIDGE*

 

Lake shore Petosky*  Where you can find plenty of petosky stones

Train Depot in Grayling* area. Big lumbering mecca in its day

 

  

Old Mission Peninsula Lighthouse  Traverse City*

 

Huckelberry Railroad* Time for a ride

Sleeping Bear Dunes

 

Pointe Mouillee* State Game Area  Lake Erie area

 

Furnace in Iron Mountain*

 

Fayette Blast Furnace

 

  

 

In its day the town was know as Red Jacket, now know as Calumet

 

Bad Axe* skelaton barn still standing

Your in Hell*

 Where its Christmas* all yearlong

 

Beaver Island* lighthouse

 

Taj Mahal in Zeba* now a wonder of the world

Bridal Veil Falls*  

 

 

 

*all photos from either a web site or blog.  Check em out !!!