Two Towns in Northern Michigan That Were on the Brink of WAR?!?!?

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It was after the Civil War and northern Michigan was growing rapidly thanks to railroads. As counties in the state formed, so did tensions around the politics of each county. This is a story about Manton and Cadillac who squared off to fight over where the county seat would be located.
It is an obscure story that is a interesting, a little surprising and amusing.
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@TheBatesFunnyFarm Год назад

I'm going to assume the broom handle was broken over someone's dome. I used to salmon fish on the Manistee. I would walk down to the river at a place called the Udell Rollaway off M-55. It's a beautiful park, with an awesome boardwalk going down to the river. The location got its name from the logging that went on in the 1800's. I guess they would roll the lumber down the hills into the river. I had a few swings with the metal detector and found an old axe head and horseshoe. I love the high-quality informative content from this channel. I've discovered so many things about Michigan that I had no idea about.

@georgeelder8415 5 месяцев назад

Better than the,"Bates Motel." Wink...

@adp5R3x Месяц назад

🎺 Lost It at the Brass Band ... Pure Michigan ! 🤣

@RestlessViking Месяц назад

😂😂

@PracticalKen Год назад

Thanks for sharing this history. GREAT animation. Love it!

@tracycc123 Год назад

Thank you for another wonderful story of the people places and things of this beautiful state we call home!

@RestlessViking Год назад

Thanks much!

@MichiganQuadTrailsTales 20 дней назад

Interesting Story! My Grandparents had A Cabin in Cadillac on Lake Mitchell, so that's what drew me into this video. I Subscribed, I like what you have going on here, Great Michigan Information!

@Rattles02 Год назад

Your vintage image of Cadillac near the beginning was taken at Maple Hill Cemetery. I highly recommend a visit to that cemetery if you ever get a chance. A few of the Cadillac-area lumber barons are burred there and their gravemarkers are really cool (and big!).

@John-R.61 Месяц назад

Fascinating story chuck 🤔

@conmereth 8 месяцев назад

I've been living in Cadillac for a few years now and I never knew about this bit of history, thanks for shining some light on Nothern Michigan!

@leeanderson6558 11 месяцев назад

I might be biased because I was born and raised in Manton. But, I believe the Manton side. There is a plaque in town that talks of the battle of Manton

@Jay_Hall Год назад

I have read that the downtown area of Cadillac was built on a large Indian burial ground and the bones from these natives were scattered all over that area. Your building is looking great Viking. :)

@RestlessViking Год назад

Thanks Jay!

@kirknlorie Год назад

Just drove through Cadillac on my way to Lake Ann! First time my oldest saw "so much snow" and people ice fishing! Great storey, always enjoy the videos and history lessons!

@beverlyroot5080 Год назад

Thanks for the great history lesson! Enjoyed it thoroughly!

@RestlessViking Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@SteveandSusiesHomestead 2 месяца назад

Boy I am glad that got this resolved . Im about to move to Manton and I dont have the money for a tank.

@tomasarmon3005 Месяц назад

Ha! Those little Mantonites could not play with us mighty Cadillicans!!

@NorthCountryHistory 8 месяцев назад

And then KISS arrived in Cadillac and played "Rock and Roll All Nite" and they all lived happily ever after.

@RestlessViking 8 месяцев назад

😂😂😂 I think there is a modern historic marker there now for the KISS visit. And it looks like a modern grave stone. LOL.

@exmichigansnowskier2150 6 месяцев назад

So did Mantonites and Cadillacites kiss and made up???

@driftwood4458 Год назад

Loved every minute. A piece of storytelling art Mr. Restless Viking.

@FjHenderson Год назад

Lol nice story on our Michigan history. You should look into Petoskey history, lol. The main street used to be where the train tracks are now. If you look down the tracks near the courthouse, the storefronts face the tracks. According to my great-grandfather who owned businesses there. The railroad wanted to run the tracks down through the main street and the sheriff said no. Well, I guess the railroad waited until the sheriff went on a fishing trip and laid the tracks down overnight and he couldn't do anything after they were down.

@RestlessViking Год назад

LOL. Interesting. . .

@georgeelder8415 5 месяцев назад

Oh my... A fait accompli!

@tedzerbe9626 Год назад

An informative tid- bit of Michigan history

@TwostrokePuchwizard Год назад

Awesome production 👏! Everyone should have an accompanied brass band ... so civilized.

@RestlessViking Год назад

Agreed!! I've been thinking the same thing!

@Myself-tg2je 2 дня назад

Whats crazy is they were able to turn around the train so quickly.

@RoosterIB 8 месяцев назад

My step- grandmother lived in Manton for awhile. Her name was Ramona LaFontaine. Is that name familiar to anyone who is watching this?

@lukefrum7543 Год назад

Great story telling.

@korodski 10 месяцев назад

😮😮😮

@becky3023 Месяц назад

I know you posted this apparently a year ago, but I just now watched it for the first time. I'm a born and raised Yooper living below the bridge now for a while and never heard this story. I can't stop laughing (not about the real injuries incurred from this incident, of course)! This story should be made into a movie. It would be golden!🤣

@RestlessViking Месяц назад

😂🤣

@paulharwood1281 6 месяцев назад

Thanks Chuck for for rolling out the Band in this Great Adventure :) 🎉🎷🥁🎺

@RestlessViking 6 месяцев назад

😂😂😀 I loved the brass band coming on the adventure!

@paulharwood1281 6 месяцев назад

Thank You for getting back with me stay well :)@@RestlessViking

@jonathonhoffman1856 Год назад

Man I really love your videos it would be so cool if you would do one on each county of Michigan I live in oceana county my family has been here here since the early 1800s

@RestlessViking Год назад

That is a tall order Jonathon! LOL.

@judyvriesema1543 Год назад

This was a riot! SO WELL DONE!

@georgeelder8415 5 месяцев назад

Could this be, wait for it, "the battle of Manton?" ;-)

@budfarkus Год назад

Another great video Chuck ! Love this history lesson and nice format. Think I've seen you around my neck of the woods..Rockford

@RestlessViking Год назад

Thanks Bud! I’ve spent some time there in Rockford and surrounding. . .

@directionallycorrect2027 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for another great video history. Appreciate your efforts

@RestlessViking 8 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@faub3282 Месяц назад

Go Vikings! ✋👈

@ngc1016 Год назад

Good Job, always love your content

@RestlessViking Год назад

Thanks Nicholas!

@mojo2382 23 дня назад

Dated a gal From Cadillac She was wonderful, Amy during the eighties of course best Decade ever when I was getting my Master Degree from WMU Kalamazoo friendliest City My kids say Best Decade Ever and you lived it Dad they are so envious And it was!!!

@johnjayforsberg Год назад

This is awesome. Well done! As my Dad grew up in Tustin, just south of Cadillac, I will have to ask him if he knows the story. If not, it will be fun to share it.

@RestlessViking Год назад

Thanks John!

@timdyersr4372 10 месяцев назад

I live in manton present day. Cool history. Thanks

@RestlessViking 10 месяцев назад

Manton is a neat little town.

@jodyrewa688 Год назад

The animation really helps this story 👍🏼

@RestlessViking Год назад

Excellent! I hoped it would.

@gus473 Год назад

😅 What a story, and I sure enjoyed the animation! Based on this, I won't ever buy a Caddie! 😎✌️

@RestlessViking Год назад

😂😂Thanks! Caddie's aren't so bad, but they aren't my style.

@abbottshaull9831 Месяц назад

This happen hundreds of time as each State as the country expanded West. Many times these tension were eventual settle peacefully by compromises. It why some Counties in Michigan have dual County Seats. With certain government functions are based in city, while others are at the other.

@jimsteele9261 Месяц назад

I seem to remember an episode of the TV series Bat Masterson where Bat was involved in a similar event in Kansas.

@burly20261 Месяц назад

I lived in both towns for a few years

@harmonicamanrandy 5 месяцев назад

I'm from Kalkaska and I've never heard of this.

@monaparker206 6 месяцев назад

A similar thing happened in Iron County in the U.P.. Records were stolen during the night.

@paulhyden Год назад

Me and my wife loved this! We recently moved to the Cadillac area. Just curious what part of Michigan you are in?

@RestlessViking Год назад

We are in the Lowell area, east of Grand Rapids.

@paulhyden Год назад

@@RestlessViking we know the area!

@exmichigansnowskier2150 6 месяцев назад

Restless Viking guy, you are great in your story and with the cartoon characters. You have any stories of Indian River, Petoskey, Harbor Springs area. On 9&10 News they did a two part story on RU-vid about a Catholic school for Native American Indian kids in Harbor Springs that were abused by the Nuns of the school. Verbal, physical, and sexual abuse on these kids was and is no place in society anywhere.

@adamstephenson7518 Год назад

I never heard this before. Love it 😂🤙

@RestlessViking Год назад

😂😂

@TheBigdutchster Год назад

Very interesting.

@kloss213 Год назад

Thank you much.

@RestlessViking Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@ronaldkemp3952 10 месяцев назад

What happened to the dog man?

@phillipgarrow2297 7 месяцев назад

Bones have been found near the lakes not downtown

@keysersoze7213 23 дня назад

🤣 Detroit news called Cadillac the most wicked town in the Midwest 😂. Oh boy how the tables & wheels of the assembly line have turned! 😂

@charleswieand4445 Год назад

I mentioned this about 2 years ago in comments on a C post . Glad some investigated more.

@locoj8626 Год назад

Lol. Great story!

@davepuranen4734 Год назад

Very Good!

@janerkenbrack3373 Год назад

Great story. I enjoyed hearing it. I don't have a county seat in this fight, but lawful channels should always be tried and conceded. And whatever claim Cadillac had over the records and safes, they had other avenues to getting them without resorting to an armed mob. (Whether or not they were liquored up. They did admit to bringing booze on the train.) Michigan was a state, so Cadillac could have sought relief without sneaking in and stealing them or committing violence. I say we settle this with a hopscotch battle between highest ranking town officials. In public.

@RestlessViking Год назад

Hopscotch battle would have been epic!

@aheike35 Год назад

Dude we need to get you into the right youtube algorithm. Too low of a sub count for such high quality of videos.

@RestlessViking Год назад

Extremely nice of you to say! Admittedly, it is fun and the algorithm comes second, but it will catch someday. . .

@colin5810 Год назад

😊 *PromoSM*

@charleswieand4445 Год назад

And axe handles C there is a monument in park by Manton

@greglatarte5547 14 дней назад

I think Manton woulda beat Cadillac.

@troymilks7342 Год назад

Reality is stranger than fiction. Er, excluding "reality" TV anyhoo, eh?

@tobyradenbaugh8965 3 месяца назад

Restless Viking - you & Poppins need to explore the mysterous House of David down in Benton Harbor, Michigan You probably know something about it ? Beyond fascinating if not. But you could do 30-40 videos on it alone. Although much has been done - there is still much to explore and tell the World - and you guys and your channel could elevate the story even more. I believe it was broken-up - ONLY because it represented a socio-economic model at that time - that theatened capitalism

@RestlessViking 3 месяца назад

We have some ideas for HOD and will probably work on a project this summer. Our videos take a huge amount of research, so things take a little time.