A Piece of History is Gone Forever

[Colliemom]

The Michigan State Park system lost another piece of it's history yesterday when a fire destroyed a historic pavillion at Black Lake?Onaway State Park about 60 miles northeast of here. Here's a link to the story:

http://www.9and10news.com/story/1697279 ... sle-county

This link is to the park's web site. If you click on the link in the middle just above Calendar of Events, it will show you a slide show of the park and the pavillion that was destroyed.

http://www.michigandnr.com/parksandtrai ... &type=SPRK


It's always such a shame when something like this happens. It can be rebuilt, but you can't rebuild a piece of history once it's gone. The original stuff is lost forever.

[Sandersmr]

Last year Bastrop State Park burned as part of the Texas Wildfires. Most of the park was blackened but all of the CCC era buildings were saved. Unfortunately, a lot of the town of Bastrop was damaged as well. To me it was a miracle that the historic part was saved.

[cpatinjones]

Sad news.

[longdog2]

Possum Kingdom SP further north in Texas also burned. And then the park out in far west Texas also burned. Drought and fires took a real toll here in Texas this year but they moved in and began repair work immediately on all the parks. State parks are very important in Texas. It's a shame when we lose one anywhere in the country.

[BarbaraRose]

What a shame.