April 12, 2026

Keystone Club Lakeland Michigan

A Black-And-White Photo Of A Log Clubhouse With A Wraparound Porch And Decorative Railings, With Several People Sitting In Chairs Under A Large Tree At Left.

Keystone Club in Lakeland, Michigan, sits like a log lodge on open ground, with porch railings and a few rocking chairs pulled into the shade. The photo itself is labeled “Keystone Club, Lakeland, Mich.”

A matching postcard in the University of Michigan’s David V. Tinder Collection is dated Aug. 5, 1911, placing this scene in the early resort era along Zukey Lake in Livingston County. Lakeland was known as a railroad-to-lakes getaway, served by both the Ann Arbor and Grand Trunk lines — the kind of stop where summer visitors rented cottages, fished, boated, and cooled off away from the city.

Do you know where the Keystone Club stood — or who belonged to it?

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Michaela Nolte

Michaela is a history buff and loves to export historical markers and old buildings and seeks stories about Michigan and Great Lakes history. When she is not writing, you can find her with a good book sipping wine on the beach.

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