This image is taken from almost the same location as the previous posting, showing the area of Fayette, Michigan, now Fayette State Park. Some of the buildings visible in the previous image have been demolished or are obscured by trees.

Stade Select Card Company, Escanaba, Mich.
The description states:
FA-2 Fayette State Park, famed beauty spot of Michigan’s garden peninsula. Limestone cliffs and rocky shores, the ruins of the old smelters and the other buildings of the once-busy furnace town create unusual scenic and historical interest.
–The white object in the middle of the image appears to be an egret in flight.
This card likely dates from the 1950s.


The description “far end of the lake” implies the bluff is downstream from the inflow to the lake, which is fed and drained by the Carp River.




The highway was originally earthen pavement when first constructed in 1929, but by the mid-30s the state was repaving the existing sections with asphalt and extending the highway with gravel as well.