Good Hart, a Ghost Town on Lake Michigan
Good Hart, a Ghost Town on Lake Michigan The village of Good Hart, now basically regarded as a ghost town, was originally part of a Native American settlement called L'Arbre Croche (meaning 'Crooked Tree'). Joseph Black Hawk (“Chief Joe”) was one of the tribe chiefs whose brother was named 'Good Heart'. In 1874, a post office began, with operations taken over by Silas McNeil; Silas was the one who named the community, but he misspelled “heart” as “hart” and the mistake has been kept all these years. The population in the 1870s was approximately 100, with 75% Native Americans. Asid...
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