Bay Harbor History Museum

Learn about the amazing history and background behind Bay Harbor.  For over 100 years mining operations and a massive cement plant had scarred over 1,200 acres and five miles of Lake Michigan shoreline on Little Traverse Bay.  After ceasing operations in the 1980's, the cement plant had been abandoned  leaving a moonscape of chromium brick, asbestos, coal and 2.5-million cubic yards of kiln dust.  In 1993, Bay Harbor Company Chairman, David V. Johnson, teamed up with CMS Energy and led a coalition of strategic allies in what was (and remains) the largest reclamation in North America.  Most impressively, what was formerly a moonscape is now the site of a four-season luxury resort community