Box 39 Singapore uncataloged items inventory
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Inventory of the Singapore Box #39, created by Olivia Foster, summer 2022
Buried Singapore by Kit Lane (1994)
“Michigan’s Pompeii” by Larry Massie, Booth News Service
“A Tale about Allegan County’s First Settlement” by Carlton Simonson, Allegan County News and Gazette, Feb. 1, 1973
“‘Lost Village of Singapore’ began as shipping center with sawmill,” newspaper excerpt from 1907 History of Allegan County
“Last survivor of buried village of Singapore says not worth uncovering” by Joe Armstrong
“Singapore’s Days of Glory are all past” by Jim Donahue, The News Palladium, Jan. 27, 1966
“Singapore Disappeared” by Kenneth Allen, Sept. 1947
“Singapore’s Early Settlers” Charles Lorenz, Holland Sentinel’s Weekend Magazine, July 16, 1983
“Buried grain by grain the town of Singapore grew smaller until only the hotel roof remained” by Larry Massie
“Life of last Saugatuck lighthouse keeper called ‘typical American saga’” by Joe Armstrong, Kalamazoo Gazette
Letter from James Schmiechen to Dr. William Anderson, CMU, Dec. 22, 2007
Singapore Silent City by Mary VanLargweld
“Our Own Pompeii” by Kendrick Kimball, The Detroit News, Apr. 5, 1956
“Saving the lost” by Cassandra Lybrink, Holland Sentinel, Feb. 20, 2022
“Town buried in sand” by Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Chronicle, no date
“Singapore: Gone with the wind,” Grand Rapids Press, July 2, 1978
“Early lake port sleeps under sand dunes” by Kit Lane, The Commercial Record
“Lost City left lasting memories” by Tim Dykstra, Hamilton Herald, April 2008
“Established 144 years ago, Singapore now buried under Dunes” by Bill Vandewater
“Singapore revisited” Holland Sentinel, May 14, 1983
“Landscape changed as town died, lake moved” by Evan Kreager, Holland Sentinel
“Undersand city” by Jan Weist, Grand Rapids Press, July 2, 1978
“Owner sheds historic Singapore sawmill steam” by Scott Sullivan, the Commercial Record, Dec. 19, 2013
“The ghosts of Singapore” by William Zinkes
“West coast lumbering has roots in Allegan County” by Kit Lane, the Commercial Record, Dec. 17, 1970
“History of Singapore at center of McClendon Land Issue” The Observer, Feb. 18, 2011
“Forgotten places” by Ann Marie Dennany
“Singapore: legend of areas past still lives” Commercial Record, Sept. 3, 2015
“Singapore swallowed by sand” Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Chronicle
The Holland Historical trust review summer 2000, v. 13, no.2 by Kit Lane
“What’s left of Singapore? Survey will explore” by Scott Sullivan, Commercial Record, Dec. 28, 2017
Unknown newspaper clipping
“Dune Moving Back: Singapore Emerging Again” unknown newspaper, author, or date
Photographs of old Singapore buildings moved to Saugatuck and East Saugatuck, buildings on old Singapore site buried in sand, and the Lowell Mill (11 photos)
Hand drawn maps of Singapore, creator unknown... James Schmiechen?
Photograph of Singapore’s “Old Dug” road, year unknown
Notes and draft from The Archeologist and Historian’s Notebook: An Environmental Disaster? Uncovering the Buried Village of Singapore from March 27, 2013, Scott Gammer and James Schmiechen
Map and write up on the Singapore Houses in Saugatuck
Letter from Bill Simmons from May 15, 1958, Simmons Notebook
Recollections of Ray Nies: The End of Singapore, no date
Email correspondence between Amy Arnold and James Schmiechen, 7/20-21/2005
Write up on Martinus and Marguerite VanLeeuwen and the “Singapore House”
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