Visitors enjoy "Spooky" tours on Halloween

The first annual "spooky" walking tours of Coloma and Watervliet were a great success. Despite cold weather the rain stayed away and allowed for two fascinating tours featuring local history stories.


Participants gathered in front of the grave of Stephen R. Gilson, "the founder of Coloma."


Participants gather for a picture with some of the local residents who still reside in the cemetary!


North Berrien Historical Society member Elaine Lavender offers a the ghost of a hobo some money by the train tracks. Newspaper accounts report that local residents used to fear hobos that hitched rides on the trains.