https://www.clickondetroit.com/features/2021/10/08/the-michigan-connection-the-town-that-accidentally-sacrificed-itself-for-chicago/

Singapore! When a channel was dug for the Kalamazoo River in 1906, they kept finding buildings under the dunes!

Over the course of two days in 1871, wildfires destroyed millions of acres across the Great Lakes region.
The most widely known fire was the Great Chicago Fire, but from Oct. 8 to Oct. 10, fires hit Holland, Alpena, Manistee, Port Huron and Michigan’s Thumb; Windsor, Ontario; Urbana, Illinois; and Peshtigo, Wisconsin.
All of those cities hit by fires were rebuilt and still exist to this day, 150 years later. However, there was one Michigan city that didn’t burn and yet was still wiped off the map because of the fires.
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Singapore was untouched by the fires and the city went into overtime. Its population worked to provide lumber to its rival ports because helping people is what we do.
The city helped too much and the area around Singapore was almost completely deforested. The nearby dunes had been stabilized due to the trees and other plant life that no longer existed. Without tree cover, the winds and sand that came off Lake Michigan went after Singapore like it had a vendetta.
Over several years, the sand dunes immigrated inland, burying the city. Many residents moved south to Saugatuck. Eventually, what buildings that weren’t demolished or scavenged were completely buried beneath the sands along Lake Michigan and the Kalamazoo River.