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Charlevoix County Porch Notes
Stories, practical details, outdoor places, tax quirks, and local history connected to Charlevoix County. This shelf has 4 practical notes and 13 local stories.
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- History and culture Boyne City Boyne City is a lively Lake Charlevoix town with a working downtown, lumber history, and the National Morel Mushroom Festival.
- Outdoors Boyne Mountain and Boyne Falls Boyne Mountain makes Boyne Valley Township and Boyne Falls a four-season ski, golf, waterpark, and resort-property area.
- History and culture A Self-Taught Builder Made Two Dozen "Hobbit Houses" Out of Beach Boulders In Charlevoix, self-taught builder Earl Young spent some fifty years making about thirty curving, boulder-walled 'Mushroom Houses' that exist nowhere else on Earth.
- History and culture Beaver Island Beaver Island is a remote Lake Michigan island with Strangite history, Irish roots, and a very different kind of property-buying rhythm.
- History and culture Charlevoix the Beautiful Charlevoix the Beautiful is a premium resort town between Lake Michigan, Round Lake, and Lake Charlevoix.
- History and culture East Jordan East Jordan is a working Lake Charlevoix town shaped by the Jordan River, EJ, and the Breezeway.
- History and culture Walloon Lake and Hemingway country Walloon Lake's clear water, old resort cottages, and Hemingway history shape Melrose and Bay townships.
- Outdoors That Pretty Beach Rock Is a 350-Million-Year-Old Coral Michigan's state stone is a fossil — a 350-million-year-old coral reef you can pick up on a Lake Michigan beach, as long as you take less than 25 pounds.
- Money and taxes No city income tax in Charlevoix County Charlevoix County's three cities do not levy a local city income tax.
- History and culture Beaver Island and Its Self-Crowned King In the 1850s the largest island in Lake Michigan was ruled by an actual crowned king — until his violent end and the gunpoint expulsion that followed.
- History and culture High Island and the House of David A celibate religious commune, a potato farm, and unmarked graves on a remote, now-empty island four miles off Beaver Island.
- Outdoors Morels: Michigan's Secret-Spot Spring Ritual Each spring, Michigan's woods fill with secretive hunters chasing the honeycombed morel — and the towns that throw festivals for it.
- Outdoors The quieter corners: Norwood, Wilson, Hudson, and Chandler Charlevoix County's quieter inland townships offer woods, farmland, small lakes, and larger rural parcels away from the resort-town core.
- Outdoors Lake Charlevoix Lake Charlevoix anchors summer life, boating, fishing, and waterfront buying across seven Charlevoix County townships.
- Home and property Well and septic in Charlevoix County Charlevoix County township buyers should expect wells and septic systems, with buyer-beware septic checks outside municipal utilities.
- Money and taxes Buying in a township? Watch for special assessments on top of your taxes Michigan township buyers should check for special assessments that can add separate road, sewer, water, lighting, sidewalk, or drain charges.
- Money and taxes In Michigan, you get two property-tax bills a year — not one Most Michigan property owners get separate summer and winter tax bills, with local rules deciding what lands on each bill.