Traders' Point
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This attractive complex includes a café/bookstore, antiques mall, and residential condos. Traders' Point has an outdoor eating area that looks across the Manistique River to the marina. The site was once home to coal wharves and the Ann Arbor Railroad carferry that sailed across Lake Michigan to Frankfort.
The complex includes:
UPPER CRUST CAFE See "Manistique Restaurants." A pleasant small bookstore shares space with the daytime café. It carries a good selection of Michigan authors; bestsellers; and children's books, toys, and educational games. Occasional book signings. Open year-round. From Mem.-Labor Day open Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 10-2. Off-season Mon-Fri 10-3. Call ahead for Sat. (906) 341-2253.
■ TRADERS' POINT ANTIQUE MALL. Stock ranges from fine china and glassware to 1970s collectibles, with a fair amount of furniture. Of the 9 dealers, 3 have fishing lures, gear, and memorabilia. No crafts. Jim Stark, co-owner with his wife, Ginger, no longer repairs furniture. (906) 341-7500. Usually open year-round Mon-Sat 11-5. May open a few hours on summer Sundays.
Traders' Point is south off U.S. 2 just west of the Manistique River mouth. Watch for big sign.
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Imogen Herbert Historical Museum. Lots of curious stuff in this little museum — a quilt made of neckties, a lampshade — and good photos of the many facets of Chicago Lumber, the company that once owned much of the town. In back there's a cabin once part of an 1890s agricultural commune. ... more
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