In this episode I interview Robert Myers from the Michigan Historical Society where we cover stories of Berrien County.  We start with the early French settlement years surrounding Fort St. Joseph in Niles founded in 1684, to the establishment of the French Government fort in 1691, which later became a British fort.  We also talk about some of the early milling history and industry, as well as the early newspapers.  Mr. Myers tells the story of the tragic loss of the Hippocampus, a passenger and package freighter that was overloaded with crates of peaches and was lost somewhere in Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Chicago in 1868, and has never been found.

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