Chronicle file photoThe E.H. Sheldon Co. in December 1962, when it was purchased by American Seating Co. of Grand Rapids.This week 78 years ago…A bright future was just around the corner for E. H. Sheldon Co. as the country slowly…
Hungarian emigrants used the still well-traveled Float Bridge, which carries Henry Street over Mona Lake, to gain access to the now-vanished farms south of the lake.
This week 128 years ago…Excitement reached a fever pitch when the long-awaited Sells Brothers Circus arrived in Muskegon. The Chronicle said on June 6, 1883 The Sells Brothers Circus is here and sightseers are having their appetites appeased.I…
John E. Burrows, whose family moved to Muskegon in 1929, began a distinguished three decade long career in the U.S. Army when he entered his senior year at The Citadel.
The 1967 transit strike ended after 10 days when the bus drivers accepted City Coach Lines’ offer of a 20 cent raise, but major changes for the city’s bus riders were only months down the road.
Already an ex-convict when he confessed to the murder of his wife, Gladys, and stepdaughter, Karen, Charles Gilbert later tried to have his consecutive life sentences overturned.
Grand Haven youth pastor Russ Gabel says his "wild heart’ inspired him to found Freewater Experience.
Stephen Nedeau, one of Muskegon’s legendary fish tug captains, passed away quietly at home after a storied life on the Big Lake.
As they would be again and again during her long, tragic years of idleness, hopes for the ill-fated S.S. Aquarama’s future were raised once again in 1983.
Recorded history at the site of one the oldest religious resorts in the area stretches back to the Civil War era.
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