Jed Jaworski

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2025 , Businesses , Featured Stories , History , Hotels/Motels , Issue 1 , Maritime History , Native American Culture & History , Print Editions , Railroad History , Real Estate

A Tale of Two Piers

Jed Jaworski March 4, 2025March 4, 2025 0 comment

And the city they built

2022 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 2 , Maritime History , Print Editions

Point Betsie’s Lost Ship

Jed Jaworski May 12, 2022May 12, 2022 1 comment

The wreck of the St. Lawrence appears

2021 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 15 , Maritime History , Non-Profit , Print Editions

154-year-old Shipwreck on Frankfort Beach

Jed Jaworski February 1, 2022February 1, 2022 1 comment

Hazard, tourist attraction, or priceless historical artifact?

2021 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 11 , Print Editions

Time Travel Back to Your Hometown

Jed Jaworski September 16, 2021September 16, 2021 1 comment

The Sanborn map collections for Benzie County

2021 , Businesses , Featured Stories , History , Issue 9 , Maritime History , Print Editions

A Tale of Two Ships

Jed Jaworski July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 3 comment

An odd dock

2021 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 2 , Maritime History , Print Editions

The Royal Frontenac

Jed Jaworski February 22, 2021June 3, 2021 6 comment

A brief, golden age of Frankfort… but not the last

2019 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 12 , Maritime History , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Unburied Treasure

Jed Jaworski December 15, 2019 1 comment

Erosion from fall storms and record high water levels revealing shipwrecks

2015 , Featured Stories , History , Maritime History , Nature , News , Print Editions

Le Griffon & Confederate Gold: Treasure Hunt Off the Frankfort Coast

Jed Jaworski June 17, 2015 2 comment

Gold fever attracts media frenzy

2014 , Featured Stories , History , Maritime History , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

The Witch of November

Jed Jaworski November 14, 2014 6 comment

First-person account of a fall storm from the deck

2019 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 10 , Maritime History , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Fishing Legacy Lies at Bottom of Betsie Bay

Jed Jaworski March 2, 2014October 14, 2019 2 comment

The tale of a faithful ship and the “Good Will” of a community

Featured Stories , History , Maritime History

Mystery of the W.H. Gilcher

Jed Jaworski July 11, 2005January 25, 2014 0 comment

ship lost with all hands near the Manitou Islands

2005 , Featured Stories , History , Maritime History , Print Editions

Resurrecting a Shipwreck Tale After 125 Years

Jed Jaworski May 31, 2005September 10, 2014 1 comment

mystery of woman’s death still haunts maritime history<