16 - Silver Creek

This photograph pair is from a location at the southern end of Silver Lake State Park on the north bank of Silver Creek. This spot is west of the Ruckel’s Bridge area and west of a water control structure, which in 2019 photograph is obscured behind the trees. In the 100+ years since the original photograph, a large area of bare sand dunes has been transformed by the expansion of grasses and trees. Another photograph looking west instead of east shows a similar expansion of vegetation, but was not included here because the 2019 photograph is obscured by dense trees and underbrush.

LAT: 43.657587, LON: -86.529723

Photo Credit – 1915, Univ. of Chicago; 2019, Kevin McKeehan, Michigan State University.

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