Crawford Avalanche (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
918 issues from 1879 to 1900, published in Grayling, Michigan, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Crawford Avalanche was first published in May 1879 in Grayling, Michigan. The city was the seat of Crawford County, which also was organized in 1879. George Maurer, formerly of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, managed the paper, while Dr. Simeon C. Brown, of Salt River served as editor. The Crawford Avalanche, then and now, was a weekly publication. In the first issue, the paper proclaimed itself to be affiliated with the state’s dominant Republican Party and declared its interest in “developing the new section,” by which it meant bringing economic development to Crawford County. Since 1968, the paper has been owned by Richard Milliman and family.
Situated in rural northern Michigan. Crawford County is experienced its greatest economic growth in the 19th century, when lumbering operations clear cut most of its extensive forests. After the close of the lumbering era, principal economic activities revolved around tourism and, beginning in the 20th century, the armed forces.
Crawford County was recognized in the 1870s as an important destination for recreational fishing. The Michigan grayling, found in the Au Sable River, first attracted the attention of anglers. Appropriately, the Avalanche‘s first edition featured a front-page story about fishing. Over the next 30 years, the grayling eventually succumbed to a combination of overfishing, environmental degradation, and the impact of human-introduced species. Today, the Au Sable River is home to large populations of rainbow and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Grayling, Michigan, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress