Letters from Ora Labora – February 13th, 1864 – $4000 mortgage check
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Posts and source material primarily dealing with religion.
Letters from Ora Labora – January 26th, 1864
Letters from Ora Labora – January 26th, 1864 – Question concerning incorporation or charter
Letters from Ora Labora – November 28, 1863
Letters from Ora Labora – November 28, 1863 Detroit, Mich. Emil Baur to Baker and Henrici. Check draft mentioned
Letters from Ora Labora – February 19th, 1864
Letters from Ora Labora – February 19th, 1864 – Emil almost freezes to death.
Letters from Ora Labora – November 13, 1863
Letters from Ora Labora – November 13, 1863 Ora Labora. Louis Faul et al to Baker and Henrici. – The colony accepts conditions of Economy and informs the leadership that Emil Baur to handle affairs.
Letters from Ora Labora – October 1863
Letters from Ora Labora – October 1863 October 31st, 1863. Economy, Pa. Baker and Henrici to Emil Baur et al. – Arrange for a $10,000 mortgage loan.
Biography of John J. Froebe
Biography of John J. Froebe a merchant of the Ora Labora colony near Bay Port Michigan.
Ora Labora Colony Group Photograph
Inscription on the back reads ” Member’s of the Ora et Labora Community, Wildfowl Bay Michigan. Circa 1865.
From the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
Ora Labora Sketch from Researcher 1970
This is a graphic of a possible representation of the Ora Labora German Colony overlaid on a map showing roads has they existed in 1970 until today. Note that much of the colony is situated away from the shore and abuts Indian Trail (Sand Road)
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