Grand Haven Senior High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Grand Haven, MI)

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1834 In the next few years Grand Haven experienced a serious flood and a fire which burned Eve buildings on the river front. Fishing was becoming an important industry. A courthouse was constructed in 1857 and served until 1893 when the present county building was built. Ottawa County was severed from lvluskegon County two years later. Shortly afterward the city block now occupied by the high school building was bought and the Grand Haven Union School established. The Civil VVar followed and Grand Haven did not hesitate to do her part in sending men to the battle field. Colonel VVilliam Ferry made a notable place in the army. He is credited with the inauguration of the commutation of rations. I A city charter was adpoted in 1867 which declared the boundaries of Grand Haven to be to Beech Tree on the East and to include the various buildings across the rivers on the West. The same year the city mourned deeply the death of its be- loved citizen, Rev. William M. Ferry. , The Grand Haven depot was moved to the east side of the river, its present location, a little later. The last thirty years of the nineteenth century saw a new Central School built, the finest in the state at that timeg the second county jail erectedg the First National Bank organizedg the election of Thomas W. Ferry to the United States Senate Che was one of the two mythical presidents of the United Statesj 3 the burning of Holland and its rebuildingg the advertising and capitalizing of Highland Park as a fine sum- mer resort by hotels such as the Old Cutler Houseg Michigan Bell Telephone Com- pany lines all over the cityg the Gas Light Company and Eagle Ottawa Leather Com- pany incorporatedg Company F's Second Regiment mustered into Michigaii serviceg the Johnston's Boiler Works, Dake Engine Company, Robbinls Coal business, H. Dornbos 81 Bros. fish business, prominentg the burning of four city blocks along with the Cutler House. Thus ends historical Grand Haven with Highland Park and Spring Lake fast becoming famous as ideal summer resorts and with the Grand Haven Furniture Com- pany replacing the old lumbering industry. To go any further would be to relate the industrial development of the city. BETTY SONREL. 0 I4 0

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