Knechtel Collection

    Collapse of the Ninth Street Bridge across the Thunder Bay River, Alpena, Michigan during the flood of April 1923.

    Collapse of the Ninth Street Bridge across the Thunder Bay River during the flood of April 1923. Alpena County, Michigan.

    From Centennial History of Alpena County, Michigan (1892/1903) by David D. Oliver, page 31: "The Trowbridge dam slacks the water up the river a short distance above the North Branch, and the perpendi

    Cohen Block and store, North 2nd Avenue, 1895.

    Ninth Street Bridge, Alpena, Michigan, c1895. Bridge was built in 1892.

    Alpena Power Company's Ninth Street Dam across the Thunder Bay River, Alpena, Michigan,

    Alpena Power Company's Ninth Street Dam Powerhouse (built 1909) across the Thunder Bay River, Alpena, Michigan.

    The third Second Avenue Bridge across the Thunder Bay River in Alpena, Michigan, looking southwest. Alpena Furniture is large building. References to dynamiting and the flood of April 1923.

    The organization of Grace Lutheran Church began as early as 1869 when the first Norwegians settled in the Alpena area. Occasional services were held in the Union School. The church first built a pars

    The cornerstone for the St. Bernard's School was laid in 1962, and dedicated in 1963. The school included eight classrooms, a cafeteria, gymnasium and library. The project cost $325,000.

    Linke's Flower Shop had a long history. Established in 1872 by Charles Sans, father-in-law of Alfred Linke, in formally passed to the Linke family with purchase in 1907 by Alfred Linke, Art Linke's f

    Known as the Dean of Alpena Businessmen, Adam Ludewig came to Alpena in 1871, and owned and operated a bookstore in various Alpena locations for over fifty years. He received many public honors inclu

    Albert, Margaret, Dorothy, and Leo Linke in a buggy next to the Linke's greenhouses.

    Linke's Flower Shop had a long history. Established in 1872 by Charles Sans, father-in-law of Alfred Linke, in formally passed to the Linke family with purchase in 1907 by Alfred Linke, Art Linke's f

    #282 French's Machine Shop: William "Bill" French was Alpena's "Mr. Fix-it." Bill started work with his father. Both of them worked on assembling the Alpena Flyer, an automobile built in Alpena betwe

    Thunder Bay River, April 1960

    Thunder Bay River, June 1960

    During the 1930s, the old Second Avenue Swing Bridge became inadequate and occasionally inoperative. On August 20, 1938, the Public Works Administration agreed to finance a new bridge. There was an o

    Green Funeral Home, Veterans' Highway, Hillman, Michigan, October 1961.

    Roadside, probably along Thunder Bay River, October 1961.