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Boy in rowboat at the hotel. Long postcard.
The Hotel Pennington was built in 1909 by Willis Pennington on the north shore of Green Lake. Pine Park station on the Manistee and Northeastern railroad brought in patrons and the hotel operated until…

Campers and Pennington family before dinner. (David Pennington is the young one standing on the chair.)
Camp Pennington was a private girl's camp started by Parker and Jeanne Pennington on Green Lake from 1943-1950. After 1950 it became a traveling…

Mrs. Philander Perry, Interlochen resident.
Interlochen was platted in 1890 where the M&NE and C&WM railroads crossed. It quickly became a lumber town and later after the lumber was gone, served the resorts, cottages, State Park and camps that grew…

Group pictures of Camp Pennloch campers and staff. The camp was on Duck Lake near interlochen. Willis Pennington is seated in the front row center of the staff picture. Willis Jr. ("Bill") is on the right end and his wife Gretchen(Havalin) on the…

Herman and Flora Tuller

Bertha and Firmin Geneaux by their rental cottages on Green Lake near Diamond Park. The second picture, (c. 1925) has them, with a string of fish and an unk. man.

The boys portion of the Music Camp on Duck Lake. This had been Camp Pennloch.
The National High School Orchestra Camp, National Music Camp, Interlochen Arts Academy, and Interlochen Center for the Arts are all names used over the years for an…

String of fish from Green Lake at Diamond Park cottages.
Diamond Park is a platted cottage resort on Green Lake near Interlochen begun in the early 1900's.

Fishermen and their catch at Geneaux cottage.
Diamond Park is a platted cottage resort on Green Lake near Interlochen begun in the early 1900's.

Lottie Leatherland. Later Lottie married several times, first to Mr. Spivey and finally to Mr. Biedler.