This photo pair shares some characteristics from photo pair for Macatawa Beach just south of the Big Red Lighthouse. The historical Macatawa Beach photograph was taken in 1962, while this original photograph was taken just four years earlier. And like the 1962 Macatawa Beach photograph, in the distance of this 1958 photograph from Holland State Beach, there are bare sand dune bluffs in the distance that by 2019 have been covered by vegetation. Both locations also show the unmistakable hands of human development as well. The repeat photograph for this location by 2019 had to be taken 30 feet into Lake Michigan due to high lake levels.
Photo Credit – 1958, Archives of Michigan; 2019, Kevin McKeehan, Michigan State University.
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