South Manitou Island
This special program was created for the Leelanau Historical Society, honoring the women of the North and South Manitou Islands. Celebrate Women’s History Month by learning about the strong and determined women of the Manitou Islands. The North and South Manitou Islands are places of mystery, with many shuttered old homes and ruins, evidence of…
Robert H. Ruchhoft Histories and trailguides for the hiker and backpacker for these eastern Lake Michigan Islands which are part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the Beaver Island Group 357 pages, 1991 Purchase
Brenda Wheeler Williams, Arnold R. Alanen, and William H. Tishler An historic agricultural landscape study of South Manitou Island at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. 294 pages, 1996 Purchase PDF
Charles M. Anderson A history of South Manitou Island and memoir by an early island resident. 111 pages, 1979 From the Leelanau Historical Society Purchase From Amazon Purchase
Gerald E. Crowner Memoir of the South Manitou Island, as told from a Surfman of the South Manitou Station, 1926-1928. 87 pages, 1982 Purchase
Myron H. Vent A history of settlement on the South Manitou Island. 105 pages, 1973 Purchase
Susan Olsen Haswell and Prof. Arnold R. Alanen An agricultural and settlement history of Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Region. 181 pages, 1994 Purchase PDF
Gene Warner An indefinitive history of the settlement of Northeast Lake Michigan 59 pages, 2007 Purchase
Kathy-jo Wargin Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen A classic retelling of the Ojibwe legend that names the Sleeping Bear Dunes, with beautiful illustrations. 48 pages, 1998 Purchase