First created as a geographic township by government survey in 1837-38, and then as a political township in March of 1865, Blue Lake township, Muskegon county Michigan, has endured all the growing pains of larger communities and more. From its influx of returning eastern Civil war soldiers looking for a new start, Blue Lake was often degraded by outsiders, in the news for political infighting, a senseless bombing and the drowning that claimed the lives of seven family members during a cold Christmas holiday. Throughout its one hundred and fifty-year history, Blue Lake Township has weathered...