# \[Home Movies: Lenawee County, Michigan: Highway, Swimming, Baseball, Kite Flying\]

highway driving POVs (great) seq climbing up Original Irish Hills Tower and looking down, also showing Gray Tower, Kelly Knoll looking thru telescope from Tower 01:53:50:05 – great shot (2 sec) looking down from tower at gas station and highway with cars going by (also longer shot beginning 01:52:39:17) beach baseball game kids flying kites from Wikipedia: The Irish Hills Towers, referred also as the Twin Towers, are two wooden observation tourist towers constructed along US-12 in the Irish Hills region in northern Lenawee County, Michigan. In the early 1920s, the Michigan Observation Company sought places of high elevation to erect fifty foot high enclosed platforms to boost tourism. In southern Michigan, a tower was placed atop Bundy Hill in Hillsdale County, Michigan and officials sought a knoll in the heart of the Irish Hills in Lenawee County. A farmer who owned half of the knoll, Edward Kelly, turned down the company's offer to purchase his portion of the land. The adjoining land owner, Thomas Brighton, consented the sale of his plat, and construction of the Irish Hills Observatory commenced. \[1\] The opening of the Irish Hills Observatory was announced by The Brooklyn Exponent in September 1924. In a gala celebration on October 4 and 5, hundreds of people ascended the hill and tower to gaze upon the rolling landscape and crystal blue lakes in all directions. Kelly seemed spited by the exploitation of the MOC's venture, and protested by erecting his own tower. By the…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 2026
- Genres: Sports, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/HM_Lenawee_County_Michigan_Highway_Swimming_Baseball_Kite_Flyin)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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