Red Park is an unincorporated summer resort area of
Onekama Township,
Manistee County
Manistee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 25,032. The county seat is Manistee. The name "Manistee" is from an Ojibwe word first applied to the principal river of the county. Th ...
in the
U.S. state
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of
Michigan
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. It is located on the south shore of
Portage Lake at ,
between
Wick-A-Te-Wah on the West and next to
Camp Tosebo
Camp Tosebo, on the south shore of Portage Lake in Onekama Township, Michigan, was established in 1912 by Noble Hill, the headmaster of the Todd Seminary for Boys in Woodstock, Illinois, as one of the first summer camps in the United States. The ...
.
History
Red Park was established in the early 1900s by a man named Davis as a summer resort colony for people in
Manistee, Michigan
Manistee ( ') is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located in southwestern Manistee County, Michigan, Manistee County, it is part of the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, Lower Peninsula. Manistee is the county seat of Manistee County ...
. The original resort consisted of a small store operated by Mr. and Mrs. James Sandenberg, the only permanent residents, who also acted as the caretaker of the collection of small summer cottages. A bandstand was built in the center of the resort, before 1910.
Early summer residents
Among the earliest summer residents of this area were the following families:
* Cron
* Probeck
* Shaw
* Hollowed
Sands
References
* Heidi Berg, "Red Park," in ''Wellspring: Interesting interviews... The way things were...'' (Manistee: J.B. Publications, 1992), vol. 2, pp. 30–33.
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Unincorporated communities in Manistee County, Michigan
Unincorporated communities in Michigan