Editing Crawford County, Michigan (section)

===Hartwick Pines===
{{Main|Hartwick Pines State Park}}
[[Edward Hartwick]] graduated from Grayling High School in 1888 and received an appointment to [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] in 1889. Four years later he graduated with high honors and was assigned to the [[4th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|4th Cavalry]]. He soon transferred to the [[9th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|9th Cavalry]], known as the [[Buffalo Soldier]]s on the western frontier. With the advent of the [[Spanish–American War]], his unit was sent to [[Cuba]] where he participated in the [[Battle of San Juan Hill]]. At wars end, he returned to Grayling and married Karen Bessie Michelson, then resigned his commission nine months later. He engaged in the banking and lumber business, prospered, and later moved to [[Detroit]]. When the United States entered [[World War I]], he volunteered for service at age 46 and was commissioned an Army [[Major (rank)|Major]]. After just a few months in France, he contracted [[meningitis]] and died. In 1927, Karen Michelson Hartwick purchased {{convert|8000|acre}} including the last {{convert|85|acre}} of virgin old growth pine forest in Michigan's lower peninsula and donated it to the state of Michigan to honor her husband. [[Hartwick Pines State Park]] is the largest state park in the lower peninsula.