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Alpena, Michigan is located on Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay.  The waterways in the area – Thunder Bay, the Thunder Bay River with its tributaries, and Lake Huron – were critical to the development of the area.  During the mid-1800s the heavily forested land in and around Alpena attracted the attention of the lumber industry.  BeforeContinue reading “Water, Fire, Air, Land*”