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The University of Michigan’s Clements Library has recently made available a digital database of photo postcards that depict over 100 years of the state’s history. WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert reports.

“That’s what made the boom town.” Many of the towns in the region, he added, were named after the quarries. Both were intrigued by an early photo in the logging area of a log jam being blown up.